Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1998
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- Hardcover
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"Hitler has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is a literary investigation of the heated controversies among historians, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians about the life and nature of Adolf Hitler. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell us about Hitler, about the explainers, and about ourselves." Written by Ron Rosenbaum. BCE. 444 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Notes; index. Condition: Near Fine hardcover with crimping to the spine ends, otherwise appears unread, in a Very Good with a couple of small closed tears, crimping to the crown, and light shelf wear. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.
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- Title
- Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
- Author
- Rosenbaum, Ron
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1998
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679431519
- ISBN 13
- 9780679431510
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- History & Historiography
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Rosenbaum methodically examines the evidence for and against all the major hypotheses concerning the origin of Hitler's character. He sifts through all the rumours--including his alleged Jewish ancestry and what biographer Alan Bullock refers to as "the one-ball business"--and the attempts to derive some psychological cause from them. Various Hitlers emerge: Hitler as con-man and brutal gangster, Hitler the unspeakable pervert, Hitler the ladies' man and Hitler as modernist artist working in the medium of evil. But Rosenbaum's portrayals of those who would define Hitler are as fascinating as the shifting perspectives on the Führer. Here we see the brave journalists of the Munich Post who attempted to reveal Hitler's evil to the world as early as the 1920s. We witness Shoah, director Claude Lanzmann's imperious attempts to stifle analysis of Hitler and the Holocaust, branding such historical inquiries as "obscene." We see the effects, on a frazzled Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, of the controversy surrounding the publication of his Hitler's Willing Executioners. We see the interior crises of Hitler apologist David Irving and philosopher-novelist George Steiner, among others, as they struggle with the ramifications of their work and thought. And, best of all, we have Rosenbaum to serve as an informed, intimate, and on occasion witty guide. In White Noise Don DeLillo depicted the satirical academic discipline of "Hitler studies;" Ron Rosenbaum breathes a life into the field that no fiction can match. --Ron Hogan , Amazon.com
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