A Daughter's Hard Questions

摘要

It is something bill and ernestine Bradley have rarely discussed, even with close friends. But as far back as 1991, when Bill Bradley briefly considered a run for the White House, the German question loomed. Ernestine had been born into Hitler's Germany; her father had been a Luftwaffe pilot. In the ruthless world of presidential politics, surely someone would whisper that Bill Bradley's wife was the daughter of Nazis. Troubled, she turned for guidance to a handful of close friends, including her confidant Arthur Hertzberg, a pre-eminent American rabbi and professor who lost much of his family in the Holocaust.