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In the Garden of Beasts - Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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In the Garden of Beasts - Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with
a few short strokes."--"New York Times Book Review"
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative
non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of "Devil
in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during
Hitler's rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes
America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that
proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife,
son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced
by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third
Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a
position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New Germany," she
has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly
honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence
of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person
testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely
indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as
Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening
new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the
shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement,
intrigue, romance--and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm
of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless
ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with
unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Goring and the expectedly
charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, "In the Garden of Beasts"
lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold
in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity.
The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks
volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat
posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and
terror.
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