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Publication Date: May 10, 2011
In the Garden of Beasts
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 outstanding 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 during 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 1st Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and also 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 1st-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 flow. As that 1st 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 Göring and the expectedly charming--however wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a beautiful, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of shocking nuance and complexity. The result's a stunning, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world failed to recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler till Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
“Larson may be a marvelous author...excellent at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review. "This book In the Garden of Beasts" will live in my memory for all time.
In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts
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 outstanding 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 during 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 1st Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and also 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 1st-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 flow. As that 1st 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 Göring and the expectedly charming--however wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a beautiful, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of shocking nuance and complexity. The result's a stunning, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world failed to recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler till Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
“Larson may be a marvelous author...excellent at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review. "This book In the Garden of Beasts" will live in my memory for all time.
In the Garden of Beasts
