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This book is an insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels,
Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich and one of the most
important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first
account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new
light on his personality, private life and political convictions,
as well as his relationship with Hitler.
Joseph Goebbels was the most notorious demagogue of the twentieth
century, and Hitler's closest confidant. This book uses his
complete diary from 1923-1945, only recently released from the
Soviet Union, to present a challenging new interpretation of his
life. It charts Goebbels' rise from provincial obscurity in the
Rhineland, through his emergence as the most dynamic speaker of the
Nazi Party and the Gauleiter of Berlin in the 1920s, to his
appointment as Hitler's Propaganda Minister in 1933. Combining
analysis of Goebbels' relationships with women and of his political
career, it argues that there were clear threads running through his
life, from a turbulent adolescence through to his death. Goebbels'
love of German culture, his obsession with 'sacrifice', his
fascination for Hitler, and his hatred of the Jews led him into a
fatal involvement with German politics which culminated in his
suicide, together his wife and six children, in Hitler's bunker in
1945.
Stetson Thacker is a gifted 17 year-old high school junior who has
been writing poetry since elementary school. He has won poetry
contests and has published in literary magazines and was the art
editor for his Cuyahoga Heights High School literary magazine
"Ephemeris." The name "Stetson" evokes the image of a rugged
American Western cowboy. His mother muses that she picked his name
"out of a hat" also noting that he shares his name with Stetson
University. He is a strong 3 season Varsity athlete who has a
poet's heart, an insightful mind and a quiet but charming and
altruistic nature. His vast interests are reflective of a
Renaissance man. He is an honor student, class leader, captain of
the Academic Challenge team, city wide national vocabulary contest
winner, a state qualifier for "Power of the Pen," community
volunteer and founded his school's "Junior Statesman Foundation"
chapter and serves as its President. He can usually be found with a
book and his memoir is based on a book.
[This] exemplary interdisciplinary approach to Aethelwold and his
impart on the cultural, religious and political life of southern
England in his own day is to be applauded. JOURNAL OF
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AEthelwold's life and his political and
ecclesiastical importance in the 10th-century reformation receive
thorough scholarly scrutiny in this appraisal of his life and work.
The studies include a comparison of AEthelwold's career with that
of other European monastic reformers; a study of AEthelwold's
foundation at Abingdon; and of his involvement with the political
crises of the 10th century. AEthelwold's skills as a scholar are
assessed through surviving Latin and Old Englist texts, and as a
teacher from the writings of his pupils. The scholarly work of his
foundations is highlighted by a detailed study of the text of the
Benedictional of St AEthelwold; other essays look at themusic and
sculpture performed and produced at AEthelwold's foundations.
Contributors: PATRICK WORMALD, ALAN THACKER, BARBARA YORKE, MICHAEL
LAPIDGE, ANDREW PRESCOTT, MARY BERRY, ELIZABETH COATSWORTH
A collection of 18 papers taken from a symposium at the SAA meeting
in Chicago in 1999. Together they address the fundamental problems
within the study of the European Early Upper Palaeolithic, both in
terms of theoretical and methodological approaches.
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