The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight, and Exile

Traces the history of Vienna from its glory as a cultural center in the eighteenth century to its present decline and discusses important figures who have become part of Vienna's history, including Mozart, Freud, Hitler, and Kurt Waldheim

Hofmann writes of his native Vienna with the ambivalence he informs us is typical of the Viennese, who have always had a love/hate relationship with their home. "Although the author does not delve deeply into the psychology of the Viennese neurosis, he describes candidly the people of this city from the golden days of the Baroque era to the present," said PW.
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