Richard Road: Journey from Hate

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By Lud Gutmann ’55

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(McClain Printing) In his memoir, Gutmann tells the story of his family, who fled to the United States from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and bought a farm in New Jersey. He discusses his Jewish upbringing under an orthodox mother, and how he juggled his German and American identities. Gutmann is a professor of neurology at West Virginia University.

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