Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray

by Peter Wortsman

Book Overview

Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World War II...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609520785
• ISBN13: 9781609520786
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.2"