A review of Reminiscences & Reflections: A Youth in Germany by Golo Mann.

In his new book, Reminiscences and Reflections, Mann gives an intimate account of Weimar that explores areas more unfamiliar to the modern reader than the well-worn stereotypes of urban glitter and decadence: Berlin figures less prominently than Munich, the town less than the countryside, and the avant-garde less than literary tradition and scholastic institutions.