Prologue: The Professional is Personal
1. An event that, as it happens, I witnessed in person, and I have a piece of the Wall that I knocked out myself with a borrowed sledgehammer in my study to prove it. I brought it back to America in my carry-on. “Wer hat ein Stück Berliner Mauer?” asked the woman scanning the bags at Tegel airport. “Ich,” I replied, and everyone in line cheered.