A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material.
Benjamin Carter Hett is a former trial lawyer and a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Death in the Tiergarten, Crossing Hitler, winner of the Fraenkel Prize, and Burning the Reichstag.
Extremely fine... with careful prose and scholarship, with fine
thumbnail sketches of individuals and concise discussions of
institutions and economics, he brings these events close to us.
Hett... sensitively describes a moral crisis that preceded a moral
catastrophe.
*The New York Times*
Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing. Hett provides a lesson
about the fragility of democracy and the danger of that complacent
belief that liberal institutions will always protect us.
*The Times*
Readable and well-researched, with the injection of fresh
contemporary voices, The Death of Democracy is also a thoughtful
reflection of how our time more resembles the Thirties than the
Noughties.
*Daily Telegraph*
Benjamin Carter Hett deftly summarises this dismal period... Hett
refrains from poking the reader with too many obvious contemporary
parallels, but he knew what he was doing when he left "German" out
of his title. On the book's final page, he lays his cards on the
table... "Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar." Yes,
it does.
*New Yorker*
A superb explanation of how democracy died in Weimar Germany. Too
much of this story seems painfully familiar today.
*The Times, 'Books of the Year'*
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