Peter Bolton talks with Thomas Geoghagen on his new book, a labor lawyer's ode to Germany, a country that treats its workers well.
Your main point of comparison for the book obviously is Germany; why was it Germany you chose as a point of comparison to liberals and not, say, one or several of the Nordic countries such as Sweden or Denmark?
For one thing, it is bigger so it's not a kind of city-state project the way Denmark and Norway and Sweden are; even Sweden arguably could be categorized [as that]. European unification is dependent upon and intertwined with German unification.
A strong Germany is, a strong united Germany, is crucial to the emergence of Europea as a political entity. So, I think it's the big enchilada.
