Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940–1952

Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940–1952Thomas Manns Los Angeles is an illustrated book that explores Nobel prizewinning author Thomas Mann life during his exile in Los Angeles. After fleeing Nazi Germany, writer and Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann found refuge for himself and his family in the Pacific Palisades, a quiet residential neighborhood in Los Angeles between Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean. Mann was one of many European intellectuals who fled to Los Angeles, forming a community

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