Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.

"This is an extraordinary book for two reasons, which are connected. One is the unique perspective of its author. The other, to some extent a consequence of the former, is the result: an important contribution to recent American history that ought not to be ignored by historians and that ought to be read by many Americans for the sake of their enlightenment." John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London and The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler"

• Contents Introduction; 1. Fault Lines in a Land of Perfection; 2. The Pig in the Python: A Generation of Vipers?; 3. John F. Kennedy and the Camelot Image; 4. Searching for the Promised Land: The Struggle for Black Civil Rights; 5. The Rise and Fall of Liberalism under Lyndon Johnson; 6. Vietnam and Protest; 7. America Awash in Young People; 8. Countercultural Movements; 9. Peering into the Historical Looking Glass.

Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.

"This is an extraordinary book for two reasons, which are connected. One is the unique perspective of its author. The other, to some extent a consequence of the former, is the result: an important contribution to recent American history that ought not to be ignored by historians and that ought to be read by many Americans for the sake of their enlightenment." John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London and The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler"

• Contents Introduction; 1. Fault Lines in a Land of Perfection; 2. The Pig in the Python: A Generation of Vipers?; 3. John F. Kennedy and the Camelot Image; 4. Searching for the Promised Land: The Struggle for Black Civil Rights; 5. The Rise and Fall of Liberalism under Lyndon Johnson; 6. Vietnam and Protest; 7. America Awash in Young People; 8. Countercultural Movements; 9. Peering into the Historical Looking Glass.

Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.

"This is an extraordinary book for two reasons, which are connected. One is the unique perspective of its author. The other, to some extent a consequence of the former, is the result: an important contribution to recent American history that ought not to be ignored by historians and that ought to be read by many Americans for the sake of their enlightenment." John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London and The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler"

• Contents Introduction; 1. Fault Lines in a Land of Perfection; 2. The Pig in the Python: A Generation of Vipers?; 3. John F. Kennedy and the Camelot Image; 4. Searching for the Promised Land: The Struggle for Black Civil Rights; 5. The Rise and Fall of Liberalism under Lyndon Johnson; 6. Vietnam and Protest; 7. America Awash in Young People; 8. Countercultural Movements; 9. Peering into the Historical Looking Glass.