book. In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time. -William Grimes, The New York Times "Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant German Jewish writers and satirists of his time. He had to leave his beloved Berlin because of his biting, yet witty stories against militarism and Nazi Fascism. Today's Berliners adore him as one of the greatest sons of this city. The world has yet to discover his genius." -Peter Schneider, author of The Wall Jumper and Eduard's Homecoming "A representative selection from the man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy, who was as much the voice of 1920s Berlin as Georg Grosz was its face." -Peter Wortsman, Author of A Modern Way to Die and Ghost Dance in Berlin "Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant writers of republican Germany...More than any other person, he foresaw what was coming.... What his readers had enjoyed as the capricious fantasies of a clever satirist has now been enacted in bitter reality, even to a satirical forecast of his own mode of death." -From the New York Times' 1936 Obituary