TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tweedie,Sanford
TI  - In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
SN  - 9780803271609
AV  - PS3620 .I584 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Nebraska
KW  - Tweedie, Sanford,
KW  - Americans
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
KW  - Erfurt (Germany)
KW  - Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall; 2; b
N2  - Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t
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