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    Jane Kramer, The Politics of Memory (1996)
    In this collection of essays written for the New Yorker between 1988 and 1995, Kramer examines Germany's transition toward reunification and its reckonings with the legacies of the twentieth century. Rather than attempting a grandiose "Whither Germany" polemic, Kramer paints her picture through intimate portraits of individual Germans' daily struggles with the rapidly changing dynamic of their place in society: Berliners debating how to memorialize the holocaust, young skinheads attacking Turks, class warfare in West Berlin's gentrifying Kreuzberg area, and the story of an East German youth hopelessly adrift in the West.

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