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Twilight of the Wagners
The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
by Gottfried Wagner
ISBN: 0312199570
ISBN-13: 9780312199579
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In this memoir, the great-grandson of German composer Richard Wagner illuminates his family's Nazi past, revealing how his great-grandfather helped produce anti-Semetic pamphlets, how his grandmother supplied the paper on which Hitler wrote MEIN KAMPF, and how two of his uncles called Hitler "Uncle Wolf."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 310
Publisher's Notes
Richard Wagner's great-grandson Gottfried Wagner, born after the end of World War II, was taught to worship his great-grandfather as a cultural ancestor of all of Germany. Perhaps no one took Richard Wagner's polemics more to heart than Adolf Hitler, for whom the musician was a foundational influence. In Gottfried Wagner's memoir, Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, Hitler is an inescapable presence, as he was in Gottfried's family - one of the many specters haunting the Wagner estate, though young Gottfried wondered if he was the only one who could see them. One afternoon he discovered old photographs and oil paintings of Hitler among the family memorabilia. Warned never to mention the pictures to anyone, he became an unwilling coconspirator in his family's secret. Gottfried Wagner reclaimed his voice during adolescence and began an impassioned crusade in adulthood to examine the hatred and racism he knew growing up in Bayreuth. Although disinherited and ostracized by his father, Gottfried has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagner's legacy and a champion of greater understanding between Germans and Holocaust survivors worldwide. With a judicious eye for detail, a sweeping sense of conscience, and the determination to redeem himself and his past, Gottfried Wagner lays bare the sins of this powerful family.
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Gottfried Wagner Della Couling
A nice ex-library copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. Purchasing this item supports the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Gottfried Wagner
Picador USA. Used - Very Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 1999. Hardcover. Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. Some rubbing on cover. Cover has some wear on edges. Dust jacket: Good. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried; Couling, Della
Picador USA. Hardcover. 0312199570 HARDCOVER, SUPER NICE, CLEAN, & COMPLETE, BINDING ,COVER, PAGES EXCELLENT, BOOK STORE QUALITY - NO PROBLEMS, . New. 5/1/1999. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
NY: Picador, 1999 Thoroughly clean, tight text in a sound & square-tipped binding; fore edges have a tiny soiling mark. Jacket is bright, untorn. B&w photos.. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Wagner, Gottfried
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Picador, 2000. Trade Paperback -- Very Good -- Other than dented area on spine, book is clean and bright with little to no wear. . ISBN: 0312199570. Trade Paperback. Very Good. BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE WAGNER RICHARD 1813 1883 FAMILY ANTISEMITISM MUSIC OPERA REFERENCE GENEALOGY SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCRIMINATION RACE RELATIONS. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 1999. A very interesting 310 page book about one Bayreuth, Germany family member finding haunting photographs, oil paintings, and film of Adolf Hitler with his family the Wagners among their memorabilia. He has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagner his great grand-father. He lays bare the sins of this powerful family. Black and white photo section. Bright purple boards with tan at spine. Gold lettering on spine. Retail price shown $25.00. Stated first USA edition May 1999 Numbers 1-10 shown. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9 1/2h x 6 1/4w. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Gottfried Wagner And Della Couling
Picador USA. New in Near Fine dust jacket; New. Corners bumped, sun faded on bottom . edge back cover.. 1999. Hardcover. New. No remainder marks. Jacket lightly rubbed. First Picador USA Edition. Full printing line. ; 10 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages; Richard Wagner's great-grandson Gottfried Wagner, born after the end of World War II, was taught to worship his great-grandfather as a cultural ancestor of all of Germany. Richard Wagner inspired a generation of philosophers, cultural critics, and politicians. Perhaps no one took Richard Wagner's polemics more to heart than Adolf Hitler, for whom the musician was a foundational influence. <P> In Gottfried Wagner's memoir, <I>Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy</I>, Hitler is an inescapable presence, as he was in Gottfried's family--one of the many specters haunting the Wagner estate, though young Gottfried wondered if he was the only one who could see them. One afternoon he discovered old photographs and oil paintings of Hitler among the family memorabilia. Warned never to mention the pictures to anyone, he became an unwilling coconspirator in his family's secret.<P> Gottfried Wagner reclaimed his voice during adolescence and began an impassioned crusade in adulthood to examine the hatred and racism he knew growing up in Bayreuth. Although disinherited and ostracized by his father, Gottfried has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagner's legacy and a champion of greater understanding between Germans and Holocaust survivors worldwide. With a judicious eye for detail, a sweeping sense of conscience, and the determination to redeem himself and his past, Gottfried Wagner lays bare the sins of this powerful family. . ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA. Fine/Fine DJ/Fine. 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0-312-19957-0 Subtitle: "The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy." . ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners
Gottfried Wagner
This book is about the relationship between the Wagners and Hitler. Book is in excellent condition. No rips, tears or marks in or on book. Dust cover is also in excellent condition. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 1999. Slight spine lean, edgewear to the jacket, some sticker residue front panel of jacket, and other light to moderate shopwear. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York: Picador USA, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Picador USA Edition: May 1999, with complete number sequence. Copyright 1997 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-19715. This lovely hard cover book, 310 pages long, is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the spine ends. The pages are tight, bright and clean. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the cover edges, light surface rubbing. "With a judicious eye for detail, a sweeping sense of conscience, and the determination to redeem himself and his past, Gottfried Wagner lays bare the sins of this powerful family." Illustrated with several pages of black and white photos.. ISBN: 0312199570. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners, Opera, Antisemitism, Biography, Non Fiction. ( more information)
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Twilight Of The Wagners (Qty: 25)
Gottfried Wagner
Picador USA, 1999. Hardcover. Brand New. 10.00 x 6.50 x 1.20. Brand new. Never read or owned. No marks. 22.4 oz. Richard Wagner's great-grandson Gottfried Wagner, born after the end of World War II, was taught to worship his great-grandfather as a cultural ancestor of all of Germany. Perhaps no one took Richard Wagner's polemics more to heart than Adolf Hitler, for whom the musician was a foundational influence. In Gottfried Wagner's memoir, Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, Hitler is an inescapable presence, as he was in Gottfried's family - one of the many specters haunting the Wagner estate, though young Gottfried wondered if he was the only one who could see them. One afternoon he discovered old photographs and oil paintings of Hitler among the family memorabilia. Warned never to mention the pictures to anyone, he became an unwilling coconspirator in his family's secret. Gottfried Wagner reclaimed his voice during adolescence and began an impassioned crusade in adulthood to examine the hatred and racism he knew growing up in Bayreuth. Although disinherited and ostracized by his father, Gottfried has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagner's legacy and a champion of greater understanding between Germans and Holocaust survivors worldwide. With a judicious eye for detail, a sweeping sense of conscience, and the determination to redeem himself and his past, Gottfried Wagner lays bare the sins of this powerful family. In this memoir, the great-grandson of German composer Richard Wagner illuminates his family's Nazi past, revealing how his great-grandfather helped produce anti-Semetic pamphlets, how his grandmother supplied the paper on which Hitler wrote MEIN KAMPF, and how two of his uncles called Hitler Uncle Wolf.. Published two years ago in Germany, the book is ostensibly a look at how Wagner's heirs--mainly Gottfried's father, Wolfgang, and his pro-Nazi grandmother, Winifred--cloaked their close relationship to Hitler to maintain their control of the Bayreuth Festival after World War II. For historians, or even for Germans who have been amply exposed to the bitter power struggle between Wagner family generations for control of the festival, there is little news in his book. -- New York Times - Alessandra Stanley (03/30/1999). . ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners, the Unveiling of a Family Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York: Picador USA, 1997 First, stated. English Translation by Della Couling. Very clean and tight, nearly as-new; only very light rubbing to the dust jacket.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall. ( more information)
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TWILIGHT OF THE WAGNERS: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, NY: Saint Martin's Press - Picador, 1999 310pp, a history of the Wagner family since WWII by Richard's great-grandson, all very sordid and unseemly but a part of the whole legend. In near mint condition.. First US Edition. Cloth. Near Mint/Near Mint. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
WAGNER, Gottfried
New York: Picador USA, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. 310 p.- in Very Good dust jacket, previous owner's name and a few annotations in ink. The controversial book by the great-grandson of Richard Wagner about his family's ties to Nazism. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 1999. Pages are tight, bright and clean. Boards, spine, edges and corners very good. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. No apparent wear. A nice reading copy, if needed for reference, research, analysis, lucubrations or just enjoyment, this is the one. Binding firm and straight, sewn signatures. 310 pages, notes & indexed.. First U. S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Price Intact. 9 1/2 X 6 1/4. ( more information)
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Twilight Of The Wagners - The Unveiling Of A Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried (English Translation By Della Couling)
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador, 1999. 310 pgs including index; contains several b/w photographs; dust jacket very slightly scuffed with slight wear to edges; spine slightly cocked;. ISBN: 0312199570. First Edition By This Publisher. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chap Book. GOTTFRIED WAGNER OPERA PRODUCERS DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHY WAGNER FAMILY RICHARD WAGNER BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE ANTISEMITISM GERMANY. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
Like New.. Hardcover. Stated 1st U.S. edition HARDCOVER with dustjacket 1999 St. Martin's. Superclean; unread; unmarked; pages bright; binding tight. Only light shelfwear. 310pp, Index, Notes, B/W photos. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'According to Greek myth, the sins of a father are visited upon his sons for 3 generations. Born in 1947, Gottfried Wagner is the third generation of operatic genius Richard Wagner's offspring, and it is clear in this prickly memoir that he does continue to carry the burden of his great- grandfather's infamous anti-Semitism. Though Wagner (1813-1883) died 6 years before Hitler was born, Gottfried demonstrates that the composer's virulent essays, which call for Jews to redeem themselves through destruction, exercised a powerful influence on Hitler. More importantly, Gottfried shows that Wagner's descendants--especially his daughter-in-law Winifred--were ardent supporters and close friends of Hitler. Furthermore, Gottfried contends that his father, Wolfgang, now the director of the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, continues to obfuscate the family's and the festival's Nazi connections. ... Gottfried's determination to honestly face his disquieting legacy raises enduring questions about the relationship between art and politics and about the responsibilities today's Germans have for their predecessors' sins.'--Publishers Weekly, 1999. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 1999 pp.310 with index. The story of this powerful family. clean tight unread copy minuscule edgewear to d/j. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried & Della Couling
Picador USA. New in New dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. New stated first edition, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. ; 10 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages . ( more information)
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TWILIGHT OF THE WAGNERS
Wagner, Gottfried
Picador, 1999. 310pp. Illus. "The unveiling of a family's legacy." (loc 505/1). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners
Wagner, Gottfried
New York: Picador USA, 1999 Biography. First Picador USA Edition. Illustrated dust jacket is slightly bumped on the corners and at top and bottom of spine; NOT price clipped. Boards are purple with gold half binding and gold print on the spine; corners and top and bottom of spine slightly bumped. Binding is clean and tight. Pages are clear and unmarked. Appears unread. 310 pages.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Twilight of the Wagners : The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy
Wagner, Gottfried
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 1999 310 pages including index and notes. In this, Gottfried Wagner's memoir, Hitler is an inescapable presence, as he was in Gottfried's family - one of the many specters haunting the Wagner estate, though young Gottfried wondered if he was the only one who could see them. One afternoon he discovered old photographs and oil paintings of Hitler among the family memorabilia. Warned never to mention the pictures to anyone, he became an unwilling coconspirator in his family's secret. New copy. . First U.S. Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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