"This remarkably well researched, lucidly argued, and elegantly written study offers first an overview of Berlin literary life in the 1910's and 1920's in a concise history of the Weltbühne and excellent biographies of the journal's three editors. . . . Following eight detailed case studies of the Weltbühne's campaigns on literary and artistic matters, Deak focuses on the journal's efforts to unite Weimar's non-Communist left against rightist authoritarian and Nazi madness." --Choice "Mr. Deak's work supplies an excellent, straightforward account of the Weltbühne campaigns against nationalism, conservatism and facism." --The Nation