“Penny approaches his subject with sincerity and care, uncovering and narrating in engaging style. . . . A significant contribution to our understanding of this peculiar and not-so-obvious aspect of Germans' mentality.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Penny’s nuanced exploration of this multilayered German fascination is a very readable volume that will engage both European and North American students of history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” — CHOICE
“Penny mixes traditional archival work and literary readings with techniques from cultural anthropology and even memoir.” — Journal of American History
“Kindred by Choice has much to offer anyone interested in American Indian history, German history, or cultural history, or simply in finding out why German hobbyists do what they do. Well written, and with several interesting illustrations, the book is simply outstanding. I recommend it highly.” — The Annals of Iowa
“Deeply researched and highly original. . . . The most comprehensive study of this subject to date.” — Arkansas Historical Quarterly
“Penny masterfully brings literary, philosophical, and sociological insights to bear on some thorny questions in German political and cultural history, particularly in the Nazi Era.” — Yearbook of German-American Studies
“[A] surprising and revelatory book. . . . Will inform anyone interested in the global history of indigeneity.” — Montana the Magazine of Western History
“Sympathetic, nuanced, elegantly argued, and theoretically sophisticated.” — Western Historical Quarterly
“[Penny] enriches the ongoing discussion of German enthusiasm for Native Americans by picking up previously researched aspects, periods, and source types, adding to the author’s own impressive selection of diligently researched archival and published material, and rolling them into a coherent and eminently readable overview of a two-centuries-long tradition of German cultural experience and practices.” — Journal of Modern History
“Represents monumental scholarship. . . . Undoubtedly contribute[s] much to the field of German-Native American interaction.” — Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
