The Hitler of History - Hardcover

Lukacs, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679446494 ISBN 13: 9780679446491

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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By examining the more than one hundred biographies of Adolf Hitler and their authors, a historian reassesses the reality of Hitler's life and his place in the history of the twentieth century and of the world. 10,000 first printing. History Bk Club. Reader's Subscription Bk Club.

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John Lukacs was born in Hungary and came to the United States in 1946. Now emeritus, he has been a visiting professor at various universities. The recipient of the 1991 Ingersoll Prize, he is the author of eighteen other books. He and his wife live in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

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liant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.<br><br>Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history.<br><br>Like an attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities, methods, and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history, particularly in

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679446494
• ISBN 13: 9780679446491
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279
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