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Democrat and Diplomat - The Life of William E. Dodd (Hardcover, Revised)
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Democrat and Diplomat - The Life of William E. Dodd (Hardcover, Revised)
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Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political
biography-author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger
and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F.
Kennedy-offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American
diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical
account, Democrat and Diplomat exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s
Germany and explores the terrible burden of those who realized the
horror that was to come. Dodd was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany
from 1933 to 1937, arriving in Berlin with his wife and daughter
just as Hitler assumed the chancellorship. An unlikely candidate
for the job-and not President Roosevelt's first choice-Dodd quickly
came to realize that the situation in Germany was far grimmer than
was understood in America. His early optimism was soon replaced by
dire reports on the treatment of Jewish citizens and his pessimism
about the future of Germany and Europe. Finding unwilling listeners
back in the U.S., Dodd clashed repeatedly with the State
Department, as well as the Nazi government, during his time as
ambassador. He eventually resigned and returned to America,
despairing and in ill-health. Dodd's story was brought into public
prominence last year by Erik Larsen's New York Times bestseller The
Garden of Beasts. Dallek's biography, first published in 1968 and
now in paperback for the first time, tells the full story of the
man and his doomed years in the darkness of pre-War Berlin.
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