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Hitler's Private Library

The Books That Shaped His Life

By Timothy W. Ryback

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| Hardcover | 9781400042043

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A Washington Post Notable Book

With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race

In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.

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A Washington Post Notable Book

With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race

In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.

Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s constant companions throughout his life. They accompanied him from his years as a frontline corporal during the First World War to his final days before his suicide in Berlin. With remarkable attention to detail, Ryback examines the surviving volumes from Hitler’s private book collection, revealing the ideas and obsessions that occupied Hitler in his most private hours and the consequences they had for our world.

A feat of scholarly detective work, and a captivating biographical portrait, Hitler’s Private Library is one of the most intimate and chilling works on Hitler yet written.

The New York Times - Jacob Heilbrunn
Ryback…has immersed himself in the remnants of Hitler's collection, which are mostly housed at the Library of Congress. In poring over Hitler's markings and marginalia, Ryback seeks to reconstruct the steps by which he created his mental map of the world. The result is a remarkably absorbing if not wholly persuasive book.

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Biography

Timothy W. Ryback is the author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book for 1999. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation and lives in Paris with his wife and three children.

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  • Hitler's Private Library by Timothy W Ryback

    The self-made man, working his lonely way by night through the best the world's thinkers had to offer, was an ­attractive cultural icon of the early 20th century. The masses' thirst for betterment spurred intellectual popularisers such as HG Wells. V ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  • The perspective of understanding a person from his book collection is an interesting idea. The author's research itself is a lovely journey to follow.

    The personal comments and observation by the author enable the reader to connect to the remote, yet so physical near, history.

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    The perspective of understanding a person from his book collection is an interesting idea. The author's research itself is a lovely journey to follow.

    The personal comments and observation by the author enable the reader to connect to the remote, yet so physical near, history.

    Really like this quote mentioned in the Preface "Walter Benjamin once said that you could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, interests, habits." Hummm, ain't it interesting just browsing through others' bookshelves in aNobii?

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 304 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1400042046
  • ISBN-13: 9781400042043
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Pub date: Oct 01, 2008
  • Also available as: Others and eBook
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