Memoirs of an American Historian in the Communist East Bloc and author a paper. You will offer an introductory paragraph in which you introduce the book, the author, the general topic and offer a thesis. (EXAMPLES of a thesis: a) Foster’s Connections: Memoirs of an American Historian in the Communist East Bloc, show the economic misery of individuals living in the DDR; b) In Claude Foster’s Memoirs, Connections: Memoirs of an American Historian in the Communist East Bloc, one can see how ingenious individuals were as they tried to thwart the expectations of the communist DDR; c) Claude Foster’s Memoirs, Connections: Memoirs of an American Historian in the Communist East Bloc, displays the personal despair of families forcefully separated for years within their own country.