Ausländer one family's story of escape and exile
"A memoir of painful recollection and an insightful examination of contemporary America. In this poignant and unflinching memoir, Michael Moritz, one of his generation's best-known venture investors, puts himself and the history of his family under the microscope. Exploring their journey through doc...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Pegasus Books,
2026.
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| Summary: | "A memoir of painful recollection and an insightful examination of contemporary America. In this poignant and unflinching memoir, Michael Moritz, one of his generation's best-known venture investors, puts himself and the history of his family under the microscope. Exploring their journey through documents inherited on the death of his mother takes him into a past of tragedy, inherited grief and the long shadows cast on Jewish life by World War II. By setting this journey against the convulsive context of Trump's America, its hatred, intolerance and ignorance, he creates a memoir that feels immediately relevant. That, as the narrator asserts, if it can happen somewhere, it can happen here. At turns both poetic and interrogative, Ausländer is a memoir of painful recollection and an insightful examination of contemporary America"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9798897101924 |
| Author Notes: | Sir Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, studied Modern History at Oxford and began his career as a journalist at Time magazine in the US in the late 1970s. It was during this period that he met the young Steve Jobs and began work on the first book about Apple, The Little Kingdom: the Private Story of Apple Computer, which was published in 1984 and has become an industry classic. Moritz co-wrote a second business book, Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story, before changing career in 1986 and joining Sequoia Capital, based in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. In 2009, almost thirty years after it was first published, Moritz revised and expanded his book on Apple in The Return to the Little Kingdom. In 2012 he became chairman of Sequoia Capital. In 2013 he was appointed KBE in the Queen¿s Birthday Honours list for his services to promoting British economy and his family¿s philanthropic work. (Bowker Author Biography) |
