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'Invisible Fatherland offers a brilliant reconceptualization of the history of Weimar Germany. Achilles highlights the patriots and public servants who created a democratic political culture. In doing so, she offers a bold challenge to the narrative of Weimar democracy's inevitable demise, which makes its ultimate end that much more tragic.' Annemarie Sammartino, Oberlin College 'Democracy-even in times of peace and stability-is hard work, work that requires the willingness to accommodate diverse and divergent perspectives and to reach compromise. Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic, forged out of wartime defeat and repeatedly challenged by political unrest and economic instability was, in Achilles's detailed and ambitious account, surprisingly inclusive and resilient. An essential history of political culture that will reshape Weimar historiography and inspire renewed empathy for embattled democracies in our own time.' Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College

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Manuela Achilles is an associate professor of German and History at the University of Virginia, where she directs the European Studies Program and the Center for German Studies. Her research focuses on Weimar democratic culture and authoritarianism, and she has published broadly on the political culture of Weimar democracy.

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