What Makes America Tick?

From left: Dr. Werner Peters; Prof. Dr. Dietmar Herz, University of Erfurt; Consul General Mark Scheland

November 20, 2007
This question drew an overflow crowd of 130 to the Thuringia State Chancery to a reading and Q&A by U.S. expert, author and philosopher Dr. Werner Peters from his recently published book “Mystery U.S.A.” Consulate General Leipzig had initiated the event in cooperation with deputy editor-in-chief Hartmut Löhr of the Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung, a main sponsor of the Erfurt annual literature fair, “Herbstlese.” In addition to the author, Leipzig Consul General Mark Scheland fielded questions from the audience once Peters had made clear “that Europeans must bid farewell to the idea that Americans should be like us” and that “the U.S. phenomenon will reveal itself to us only after we realize that we actually know nothing.”