In Memoriam David Bathrick

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Other| November 01 2020 In Memoriam David Bathrick The Editors The Editors Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): iii–xiv. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8713164 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation The Editors; In Memoriam David Bathrick. New German Critique 1 November 2020; 47 (3 (141)): iii–xiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8713164 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsNew German Critique Search Advanced Search David Bathrick was born in New York City in 1936 and grew up in Darien, Connecticut, town of Gentleman’s Agreement fame. He went to Dartmouth, became the Big Green football team’s star linebacker, and joined the Marine Reserves. Since early childhood he had also developed a lifelong fascination with boxing, which years later led to his politically incisive commentary in the 2004 PBS documentary The Fight, about the two 1930s heavyweight matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. All of it reflected part of David’s personality and his prodigious ways of storytelling but was hardly predictive of his professional trajectory as a professor of modern German culture.His interest in all matters German had been piqued during an American Field Service–sponsored summer high school exchange in Berlin in 1954. Between his sophomore and junior years in college, he took a... Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc.2020 You do not currently have access to this content.