Ronald D. Gerste
Auteur van Amerika verstehen
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Fotografie: Ronald D. Gerste (*1957)
Werken van Ronald D. Gerste
Wie das Wetter Geschichte macht: Katastrophen und Klimawandel von der Antike bis heute (2015) 12 exemplaren
Duell ums Weisse Haus: Amerikanische Präsidentschaftswahlen von George Washington bis 2008 (2008) 6 exemplaren
Defining moments - Amerikas Schicksalstage vom 4. Juli 1776 bis 11. September 2001 (2002) 6 exemplaren
Die Queen: Elisabeth II. und ihr Zeitalter 1 exemplaar
Die Queen 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1957
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Germany
- Geboorteplaats
- Magdeburg, Deutschland
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 21
- Leden
- 86
- Populariteit
- #213,013
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 30
- Talen
- 5
The author is German, writing in German, but lives in Washington, DC. His choice of individuals seems influenced by that. He writes chapters about 5 US Presidents, but only two modern Germans. Friedrich Ebert is the only person he writes about whose name would not be familiar to most Americans with an interest in history.
The only woman who gets a chapter is Queen Mary Tudor. There is a chapter on how illness has effected people other than top rulers - JS Bach is mentioned in the chapter title, but most of the chapter is about the eye surgeon who operated on him. Nobody outside of the US and Europe gets one, although Nelson Mandela gets a mention in the tuberculosis chapter. The other parts of the world only get mentioned as sources of illness. Even in the case of AIDS, only the effects on the US and Europe are considered. The AIDS pandemic in the rest of the world doesn't matter. I'm not sure how white male privilege still gets to be so obvious in a book published in 2019.
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