Mann in America.

While other authors have covered the subject of the German exiles, including Thomas Mann's American years, we are concerned here with the intersection of culture (or, in the German sense, Kultur) and American middlebrow. Boes is not attempting to turn Mann into a hero, although it is correct to say that Mann threw himself into the Allied war effort. Thomas Mann's War was written for a scholarly audience, but I can't help thinking that Boes's approach might have been moderated with some levity or irony, both of which characterize Thomas Mann's oeuvre. [Extracted from the article]

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