Review Hitler’s People — the lesser-known faces behind the rise of Nazism Shifting the focus away from the Führer et al, Richard J Evans profiles lower-ranking Nazis who enabled the Holocaust Previous pageYou are on page1Next page
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography — the truth behind the fairy tales A dive into the lives of the storyteller brothers tells how the pair made their way to literary fame Behind the Money podcast28 min listen Business Book of the Year: Author Parmy Olson on the rise and risks of AI ...
Seventy years after its first publication, it’s still one of the most innovative takes on biography and a woefully under-recognized attempt to revitalize a form remarkably resistant to experimentation. In the last ten years or so, there have been a number of celebrated alternative takes on bi...
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An odd biography, there is nothing in this book in Chris’s own words, except in the beginning that includes a short motivation speech he once delivered about going through rehab and one letter at the end that he wrote to his parents during his last relapse. However there are no other in...
In some ways, the book is a reflection on her biography of Luther, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Wolfson Prize, and has been recommended on Five Books as one of the best books on the Reformation. She further examines his anti-Semitism. It's also about how he shaped his public ...
Read 2 Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service Read 3 Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short Read 4 The Hitler of History by John Lukacs Read 5 Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha Read 6 A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Guri...
- Hitler: A Biography John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Martin Luther King Jr. - A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches - Letter from the Birmingham Jail √ (prior to 2018) - Why We Can...
Wanda’s mother is Black; her father the son of one of Hitler’s rocket scientists, an Air Force colonel working on the space program who used to beat Wanda with a steel ruler when she let slip that her mother was neither white nor dead. The ambiguity of identity is a major theme in...
Some good new fiction:Lynda Schor’s SEDUCTION is just out with lots of riffs on history and famous writers and others, and the love lives (mostly kinky) of Hitler, Pee Wee Herman, Ronald Reagan, Henry Miller, Grover Cleveland, and more. One story I especially like, “Footnotes,” writte...