--Noah Isenberg, BookforumIt is the thesis of Eric D. Weitz in Weimar Germany that even before the Nazi coup of 1933, Weimar democracy, however brilliant its cultural particulars, never had a chance....And yet, as Weimar Germany makes elegantly clear, what a vibrant and kinetic moment it was with such artists as K??the Kollwitz and George Grosz, such architects as Erich Mendelsohn and Walter Grop