Information on the author Eric D. Weitz is a distinguished professor of history at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of "A Century of Genocide" and "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990" (both Princeton).

Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, "Weimar Germany" brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, illuminating the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weitz reveals how Germans rose from the turbulence and defeat of World War I and revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. He explores the period's groundbreaking culture.