Title: Crossing the river : a memoir of the American left, the Cold War, and life in East Germany /
Authors: Grossman, Victor, 1928-; Solomon, Mark.; Solomon, Mark I.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Grossman, Victor,; Defectors United States Biography.; Defectors Germany (East) Biography.; Cold War.; Germany (East) Description and travel.
Contents: Crossing the border. Childhood -- Harvard years -- Working -- Soldier. Life in East Germany. Starting in a new land -- The clubhouse and the lathe -- A student again -- Journalist in a divided city -- Radio, Robeson, and the Prague Spring -- Freelancing in East Germany -- Tremors -- Death of a nation -- A new life in united Germany -- The Big Rock Candy Mountain? -- Epilogue : eau de cologne -- Afterword and selected bibliography by Mark Solomon.