Germany Recovers America Author:Earl R. Beck This is a book about America. But it is also a book about Germany. It deals with the hundreds of "America books" which poured from German presses after World War I and the thousands of "America articles" which crowded the columns of German newspapers and periodicals. On the one hand it adds dimensions to American history as it presents myriad pi... more »ctures of the United States in the 1920's and 1930's. On the other side it reflects much of the intellectual and emotional atmosphere dominating the German scene during the critical days of the Weimar Republic.« less