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This is the third and final installment of an autobiography, the first two of which were published by a university press under the titles Letter to my Descendants and A Global Citizen. It is also an end-of-life commentary, reflecting on a long and very eventful life that spans nearly a century and involves travel and work in many countries. As the original title implies, the books were intended for our descendants, yours and mine, in a distant future, an attempt to explain what people and living were like in the turbulent years from the rise of Nazism and Japanese militarism to the time when Barack Obama was elected to change the political course of the United States and with it the orientation of the world at large. The first installment covered the author's first 27 years, his upbringing in the pastoral Denmark, the catastrophic events of the German occupation, resistance against Nazi suppression, German concentration camps, escape, and work with US Army Intelligence. The second book covers the author's career in America, the civil rights struggle, the Cold War, the bitter lessons of Vietnam and 9/11, and our fumbling attempts to counter terrorism. The narrative of the third book, The Making of an American, is admittedly in the nature of stray thoughts, as the author picks up random items that failed to be previously included, either forgotten or excised under an editor's cutting. Whether they deserve inclusion is for the reader to judge, but I found them to round out a story posited by the two foregoing books in a manner useful to someone who, a century or two hence, may be trying to make sense of our actions, motivations, desires and fears. Will anyone by then be baking their own bread? Or flying their own airplane? Or owning guns or driving automobiles? The chapters are highly disparate, and the "voice" accordingly changes with the momentary subject. The aim is to entertain sufficiently to hold the reader's attention while informing and educating him or her about a bygone era. Obviously a highly ambitious prospect.
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Professor Skov's career has embraced engineering, corporate management, and college teaching. His deeper background as saboteur, WWII underground fighter against the Gestapo, escapee from a firing squad, and US intelligence operative in wartime Germany has yielded supplementary experience to round out his views on recent history and current affairs. |
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