When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in
Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the
Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the
furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting
tale of the remarkable people who lived in the house before Eisen.
Their story is Europe's, telling the dramatic and surprisingly
cyclical tale of the endurance of liberal democracy: the optimistic
Jewish financial baron who built the palace; the conflicted Nazi
general who put his life at risk for the house during World War II;
the first postwar US ambassador struggling to save both the palace
and Prague from communist hands; the child star- turned-diplomat
who fought to end totalitarianism; and Eisen's own mother, whose
life demonstrates how those without power and privilege moved
through history. The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that have
transformed the continent over the past century and reveals how we
never live far from the past.
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