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Muriel's War - 9780230615656

Un libro in lingua di Sheila Isenberg edito da St Martins Pr, 2010

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Born into a wealthy meatpacking dynasty in Chicago at the turn of the century and educated at Wellesley, raven-haired beauty Muriel Gardiner renounced her family's materialistic lifestyle and left the United States. First studying at Oxford, then attending the University of Vienna Medical School, Muriel befriended Anna Freud and Studied the fledgling science of psychoanalysis just as the dark clouds of Hitler's war were moving across Europe. During this tumultuous time, she was married twice, had a daughter, and in Vienna fell in love with a leader of the Austrian underground. When Germany finally annexed Austria in March 1938, Muriel began to help Jews and anti-Fascists escape, smuggling forged documents across borders and risking her own life. Eventually, she left Europe for New York, but continued to use her wealth and vast network of connections to rescue many still trapped behind enemy lines. Muriel went on to become an eminent psychoanalyst, and was a founder of the International Rescue Committee.

Here, for the first time, this electrifying woman, who impressed everyone she met with her intelligence and powerful personality, receives her due. Drawing from Gardiner's unpublished writings and interviews with those who knew her best, Sheila Isenberg tells Muriel's astonishing story of moral courage and humanistic zeal. With all its twists and turns, this inspiring account reveals a heroic woman who lives on as a legend of her time.

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