Research Catalog

Title

Americans and Europeans dancing in the dark : on our differences and affinities, our interests, and our habits of life / Dennis L. Bark.

Author

Bark, Dennis L.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2007.

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Description

xxvii, 273 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Alexandra Andreevna Voronine and her mother lived in Kharkov alone, destitute, and fearing for their lives because of World War I, revolution, civil war, and famine. When Alexandra went to work in 1921 at the office that was coordinating Russian and foreign famine relief, she met Captain Vidkun Quisling, Fridtjof Nansen's representative in the Ukraine. In 1922, at the age of seventeen, she married the man whose name became synonymous with traitor during World War II and accompanied him to Oslo." "Abandoned in Paris within a year, penniless and unaware of being a pawn in a game of international intrigue, Alexandra remained under Quisling's strict control for several more years. When her tumultuous life eventually took her to China, she married W. George Yourieff, who supported her efforts to recall and analyze her years as Quisling's wife. A further tide of events saw the Yourieffs settled in California, and in 1980 they began a collaboration with the Norwegian-born historian and novelist Kirsten A. Seaver. The archives Seaver consulted in London and Oslo and at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University confirmed Alexandra's intensely personal, episodic recollections about an extraordinary life and provided the necessary connective tissue. They also revealed to Alexandra at long last the brutal story behind her lost years."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 554

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 554.

Subject

• National characteristics, European
• National characteristics, American
• Europe > Relations > United States
• United States > Relations > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Continental contrasts -- Preface -- ch. 1. Differences -- The essential difference -- From the top down -- Aristocrats, old and new -- From the bottom up -- The essential difference, again -- ch. 2. On history, heritage, and habits of life -- Geography, distance, and space -- Art and music, language, manners, and habits of life -- Views from the backyard -- pt. 2. Qualities of life -- Preface -- ch. 3. Equality, opportunity, stability -- The European socio-economic model, the American model -- Socialism in Europe and America -- The post-1945 political and economic order -- ch. 4. Uncommon marketplaces -- The concept of the Union -- When realities are trump -- Great expectations -- Competition -- pt. 3. Freedom and order -- Preface -- ch. 5. Legacies, ancient and modern -- The idea and the tree -- History lessons -- ch. 6. The fly in the soup -- Changing relationships -- Interpreting September 11, 2001 -- ch. 7. The force of things -- Aspects of leadership -- New crossroads -- Obligations written in the heart -- Appendix 1 : A comparative chart of European countries -- Appendix 2 : "An American is ..." -- Appendix 3: "The International" -- Notes -- A selected bibliography for further reading -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780817948023 (alk. paper)
• 0817948023 (alk. paper)
• 9780817948016 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817948015 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007003568

OCLC

80461144

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library