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Does the 'American Dream' also rest on a secret yearning for catastrophe? Addressing this question in four elegantly and breezily narrated 'stories, ' George Blaustein's Nightmare Envy succeeds brilliantly in recasting our understanding of the democratization of Germany after World War II and the so-called 'Americanization' of Europe. --Werner Sollors, Harvard University, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s Just after World War II, when the US was a shiny new global power, American Studies was fashioned as therapy for a ruined world. Now that the United States is exhibit A in a newly ruined world, George Blaustein offers a well-timed and insightful reappraisal of that earlier moment of odd American trauma-envy. --Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

Does the 'American Dream' also rest on a secret yearning for catastrophe? Addressing this question in four elegantly and breezily narrated 'stories, ' George Blaustein's Nightmare Envy succeeds brilliantly in recasting our understanding of the democratization of Germany after World War II and the so-called 'Americanization' of Europe. --Werner Sollors, Harvard University, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s Just after World War II, when the US was a shiny new global power, American Studies was fashioned as therapy for a ruined world. Now that the United States is exhibit A in a newly ruined world, George Blaustein offers a well-timed and insightful reappraisal of that earlier moment of odd American trauma-envy. --Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

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George Blaustein is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Amsterdam.

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