The volume presents 200 letters from the Jewish woman Marianne Beth, née von Weisl (1890-1984), who was expelled from Vienna to America in 1939, the first female lawyer with a doctorate in law (1921) and lawyer in Austria, who played a leading role in the international bourgeois-liberal women's movement. As a polymath, Austria's first orientalist (1912), religious psychologist, philosopher (in 1930 the first and only woman to be awarded the Berlin Kant Society Prize), sociologist and ethnologist, she left behind a rich body of literature. Her letters from exile, which are mainly addressed to her brother Wolfgang von Weisl (1896-1974), one of the pioneers of the State of Israel, are critical of American domestic and world politics under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon, always focused on the politically and militarily insecure development of Israel.