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" In the garden of beasts : "
Erik Larson
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BL
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688727
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b510916
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| Main Entry
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Larson, Erik
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In the garden of beasts : : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin] /\ Erik Larson
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1st ed
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New York :: Crown,, c2011
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xiv, 448 p. :: ill., map ;; 25 cm
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0307408841
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: 030740885X
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: 0307887952
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: 9780307408846
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: 9780307408853
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: 9780307887955
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| Notes
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Map on end papers
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index
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| Contents
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Das Vorspiel -- The man behind the curtain -- Into the wood -- House hunting in the Third Reich -- Lucifer in the garden -- How the skeleton arches -- Disquiet -- Berlin at dusk -- When everything changed -- The queer bird in exile -- "Table talk"
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| Abstract
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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable 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 in 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 first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and 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 first-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 circulate. As that first 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. --
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Dodd, William E., (William Edward),1869-1940
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Diplomats-- United States, Biography
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Historians-- United States, Biography
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National socialism-- Germany
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Germany, Social conditions, 1933-1945
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E748.D6L37 2011
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