Maybe Luck Isn't Just Chance
Liepman, Ruth / Broadwin, John In simple, forthright and honest prose, noted literary agent Ruth Liepman shares her amazing life story - one that saw two world wars and the collapse of empires - and her love of books and writers. Born into a middle-class doctor's family, the young Ruth Lilienstein was raised in Hamburg, studied law, and found herself drawn increasingly toward the ideals of the Communist Party. When Hitler came to power in 1933, she had to flee because of he...