Going to the Dogs The Story of a Moralist

Name: Going to the Dogs The Story of a Moralist
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ISBN: 9781590175842

ISBN-10: 1590175840

ISBN-13: 9781590175842

Edition: 2012

Authors: Erich Kastner, Rodney Livingstone, Cyrus Brooks

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Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralistis set in Berlin after the Wall Street crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of relentlessly rising unemployment when major banks and companies were in collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter, 17 Schaperstrasse, weak heart, brown hair,” a young man with an excellent education but, at least in the current economy, no prospects—permanently condemned, so far as anyone can see, to a low-paid job without security in the short or the long run. What’s to be done? Fabian and friends make the best of it—they go to work every day even though they may be laid off…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.08" wide x 8.07" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Cyrus Brooks was a writer of detective stories and a translator of other books by Kï¿½stner as well as by Alfred Neumann, Leonhard Frank, and others. During World War II, he was chief executive officer in the Political Warfare Executive, and in this capacity he was active in the reeducation of German prisoners of war.