The Coming of the Third Reich
"The Coming of the Third Reich is sober reading when compared against current events; the temptation to draw parallels is great....The past can...inform the present, and Evans offers much information...
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Poetry In Motion: Poetry just got a whole lot sexier — and more scandalous! Ruth Padel, the first female poetry professor in Oxford history, has resigned the post, admitting that she torpedoed her...
View ArticleBeastly Origins
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that for one reason or another faded from contemporary awareness. So, you ask, why...
View ArticleIn the Garden of Beasts
The rise of the Third Reich as observed by William Dodd, America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, and his free-spirited daughter is the chilling topic of Erik Larson's impressive new book. With...
View ArticleErik Larson: The Powells.com Interview
I've been a fan of Erik Larson's riveting brand of narrative history for years, and his latest book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, is his finest work yet. Suspenseful and expertly...
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