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In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By Larson, Erik
- ISBN
- 978-0-30740-884-6
- Publisher
- Crown
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Reviewed on April 1, 2011
Best-selling author Larson (The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America) turns his considerable literary nonfiction skills to the experiences of U.S. ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd and his family in Berlin in the early years of Hitler's rule. Dodd had been teaching history at the University of Chicago when he was summoned by FDR to the German ambassadorship. Larson, using lots of archival a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
