The historian describes with verve and great American flair how moderate academics came to occupy [a] place in the ideological maelstrom of the 1960s, how they fought for it, and what compass they developed for the period that followed, in which they rose to top positions.
Anna von der Goltz teaches German and European History in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Department of History. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2007 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford and at the University of Cambridge. Her first book Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis (Oxford University Press, 2009) won the Wiener Library's Fraenkel Prize in
Contemporary History. She has published widely on 1968 in Germany and beyond. Originally from the northern German city of Bremen, she lives in Washington, D.C..