Word: wechsler
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...Wechsler recalls those Harvard years as vibrant but somewhat unfocused...
Five decades ago, Stephen Wechsler ’49, an American soldier stationed in West Germany, jumped into the Danube River to begin a new life on its opposite bank—communist East Germany...
...Wechsler records this experience and four subsequent decades of life as an American expatriate in East Germany in his new book, Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany, due for publication in the fall...
...Wechsler grew up in a liberal Jewish family in New York in the 1930’s, his father an art dealer and his mother an Estonian immigrant. Despite financial troubles, his parents provided him with an elite education that culminated at Harvard, where he majored in economics, focusing on workers’ unions...
...Harvard…there was really little specialization. I was unprepared for the world,” Wechsler recalled in an interview...