Required Texts

1. Charles S. Maier. The Unmasterable Past. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) 1988.
   
   
2. Norman Finkelstein and Ruth Birn. A Nation on Trial: the Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth. (New York: Henry Holt and CO) 1998.
   
   
3. Peter Novik. The Holocaust in American Life. (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.) 1999.
   
   
4. Bertolt Brecht. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Private Life of the Master Race.
   
   
5. Jurek Becker. Jacob the Liar. (Penguin Classic) 1997.
   
   
6. James E. Young. The Texture of Memory. (Yale Uni. Press) 1993
   
   
7. Course Reader
   
   

Reinhard Mayer (rmayer@skidmore.edu) x5214
Office: Palamountain 429
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