Confronting history

"Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung, Martin Buber, Albert Speer, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others among the famous and infamous. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his many scholarly books."--BOOK JACKET.