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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and...

"After the battle, we picked up a German soldier who had been wounded. He had been shot in the leg with a .50-caliber bullet, and had lain out overnight in this freezing, subzero weather. Both of his arms and both of his legs were frozen stiff as a board. He begged us to shoot him. I couldn't do it. I asked for a volunteer. But these battle hardened soldiers would not volunteer. One soldier lit a cigarette and held it to his lips. Another soldier brought him a hot cup of coffee and held it so he could get coffee until we got the litter jeep up there...."

Amerikas ungewöhnlichste Präsidenten. Unterhaltsam und zugleich höchst informativ beleuchtet Ronald D. Gerste eine unbekannte Seite der US-Geschichte: das Leben skurriler, bemerkenswerter, spleeniger und mitunter auch tragischer Präsidenten der USA. Zugleich gibt er überraschende Einblicke in die bisher wenig bekannten Seiten des wichtigsten Amtes der Welt und seiner Inhaber. Amerika war schon immer "great".