Table of Contents:
  • Crossing the border. Childhood
  • Harvard years
  • Working
  • Soldier. Life in East Germany. Starting in a new land
  • The clubhouse and the lathe
  • A student again
  • Journalist in a divided city
  • Radio, Robeson, and the Prague Spring
  • Freelancing in East Germany
  • Tremors
  • Death of a nation
  • A new life in united Germany
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
  • Epilogue : eau de cologne
  • Afterword and selected bibliography by Mark Solomon