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Nov 2019
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The Life of Ernst Jünger with Elliot Nea...

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Elliot Neaman (born 1957) is a professor of history at the University of San Francisco, where he began teaching in 1993. He won the USF Distinguished Research Award in 1999. He is the author of *A Dubious Past, Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism* and *Free Radicals; Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerillas and Germany's Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s*

Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a highly-decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.

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