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"A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."
Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? What was his primary motive for the extermination of the Jews? The Hitler of History answers these questions as fully as any modern work can hope to, with an intellectual boldness that makes it absolutely essential to any understanding of the post-Hitler world.
"Lukacs is a shrewd historian and an engaging writer . . . a sharp and sober portrait." --Philadelphia Inquirer
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Bart Schollaert
reviewed The Hitler of History on September 19, 2011
The Hitler of History
So relentlessly footnoted that establishing any kind of rhythm proved to be an impossibility'but nevertheless wholly absorbing and counter-intuitively illuminating and learnedly cantankerous, a work that, through its dissection of the vast realm of Hitler scholarship and literature'and even more now than in 1997'by means of a topical basis in trying to assess Hitler's legacy, place in history, formative influences, and character, alerted me to the possibility that John Toland might not actually be the last word on Mr. Mustache whilst simultaneously alleviating me of some of the distress engendered within by my marked inability to muster the requisite appreciation for Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism .
Read quite some time ago, and, what with my recent ingestion of another impressive work by the esteemed and educational Professor Lukacs, worth another run through, perhaps bookended either way by the longer, generally better reviewed work by Ron Rosenbaum.
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