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An excellent and entertaining book that deserves to be a bestseller, and probably will be.” —Washington Post“The most important book of 2011.” —O, The Oprah Magazine“A dazzling amalgam of reportage….Reads like a suspense novel, replete with colorful characters, both familiar and those previously relegated to the shadows. Like Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories or Victor Klemperer’s Diaries, IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS is an on-the-ground documentary of a society going mad in slow motion.” —Chicago Sun-Times“Fascinating...A master at writing true tales as riveting as fiction.” —People (3 1/2 stars) “Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witness to Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller….a fresh picture of these terrrible events.” —New York Times Book Review“Larson, a master of historical nonfiction, has written a fascinating book that, although carefully researched and documented, reads like a political thriller...highly recommended to anyone interested in the rise of the Third Reich and America’s role in that process.” —Jewish Book World“Larson's strengths as a storyteller have never been stronger than they are here, and this story is far more important than either "The Devil in the White City" or "Thunderstruck." How the United States dithered as Hitler rose to power is a cautionary tale that bears repeating, and Larson has told it masterfully.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer“Larson has done it again, expertly weaving together a fresh new narrative from ominous days of the 20th century.” —Associated Press“Mesmerizing...cinematic, improbable yet true.” —Philadelphia Inquirer“Compelling...the kind of book that brings history alive.” —USA TODAY“[G]ripping, a nightmare narrative of a terrible time. It raises again the question never fully answered about the Nazi era—what evil humans are capable of, and what means are necessary to cage the beast.” —Seattle Times“A stunning work of history.” —Newsweek“Tells a fascinating story brilliantly well.” —Financial Times“A cautionary tale not to be missed.” —Washington Times“Highly compelling...Larson brings Berlin roaring to life in all its glamour and horror...a welcome new chapter in the vast canon of World War II literature.” —Christian Science Monitor “Terrific storytelling.” —Los Angeles Times“Vivid and immediate...a fascinating and gripping account.” —Washington Independent Review of Books“Gripping...a story of stunning impact.” —New York Daily News“Larson is superb at creating a you-are-there sense of time and place. In the Garden of Beasts is also a superb book...nothing less than masterful.” —Toronto Globe and Mail “Harrowingly suspenseful.” —Vogue.com “Larson has taken a brilliant idea and turned it into a gripping book.” —Women's Wear Daily“A gripping, deeply-intimate narrative with a climax that reads like the best political thriller, where we are stunned with each turn of the page.” —Louisville Courier Journal“Electrifying reading...fascinating.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune“Larson's books are tightly focused and meticulously researched, but they also are rich in anecdote and detail from the homey mundane to the tragic, the absurd and the downright funny. His prose has an austere, compassionate lyricism. His narratives have novelistic pull...his psychological perception and empathic imagination lend flesh to the documents, music to the ballrooms. He gives a throbbing pulse to the foolish and the wise, the malignant and the kind.” —The Oregonian“A masterly work of salacious nonfiction that captures the decadent and deadly years of The Third Reich.” —Men's Journal“Even though we know how it will end — the book's climax, the Night of the Long Knives, being just the beginning, this is a page-turner, full of flesh and blood people and monsters too, whose charms are particularly disturbing.” —Portsmouth Herald “Larson’s latest chronicle of history has as much excitement as a thriller novel, and it’s all the more thrilling because it’s all true.” —Asbury Park Press“Larson succeeds brilliantly…offers a fascinating window into the year when the world began its slow slide into war.” —Maclean's“Larson's scholarship is impressive, but it's his pacing and knack for suspense that elevates the book from the matter-of-fact to the sublime.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review“[A] brilliant tour de force of nonfiction writing...Larson, as always, conjures magic with the details, and often injects a welcome dollop of dark humor...In the Garden of Beasts serves as both a serious, insightful look at history, and a stern warning against national complacency when you’re being run by a dictator who is both vicious and undeniably off his rocker.” —Dallas Morning News “Like slipping slowly into a nightmare, with logic perverted and morality upended….It all makes for a powerful, unsettling immediacy.” —Vanity Fair“A master of nonfiction storytelling...Larson once again gathers an astounding amount of historical detail to re-create scene after vivid scene...a stunning, provocative immersion...a call to citizens in all nations to investigate the motives of power brokers and government officials, to stand our ground when we see others' moral compasses going awry.” —Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram“Excellent.” —Salon.com“No other author...has the ability to actually live up to that old adage of making history come alive. What Larson is doing is creating a world that no longer exists on the page...[He] not only succeeds but is able to turn what one would expect to be tedium into page-turning brilliance.” —Digital Americana“Narrative nonfiction at its finest, this story drops into 1933 Berlin as William E. Dodd becomes the first U.S. ambassador to Hitler's Germany—a tale of intrigue, romance, and foreboding.” —Kansas City Star“One of the most popular history books this year...offers something for both serious students of the 1930s and for lovers of charming stories.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Erik Larson tackles this outstanding period of history as fully and compellingly as he portrayed the events in his bestseller, The Devil in the White City. With each page, more horrors are revealed, making it impossible to put down. In the Garden of Beasts reads like the true thriller it is.” —BookReporter.com“In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City...a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) “An excellent study, taking a tiny instant of modern history and giving it specific weight, depth and meaning.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)“A brilliant and often infuriating account of the experiences and evolving attitudes of the Dodd family during Hitler’s critical first year in power. With the benefit of hindsight, of course, the Dodds seem almost criminally ignorant, but Larson treats them with a degree of compassion that elevates them to tragic status.” —Booklist (Starred Review)“Larson writes history like a novelist...conveying quite wonderfully the electrically charged atmosphere of a whole society turning towards the stormy dark.” —The TelegraphPraise for Erik Larson THUNDERSTRUCK“A ripping yarn of murder and invention.” —Los Angeles Times “Larson’s gift for rendering an historical era with vibrant tactility and filling it with surprising personalities makes Thunderstruck an irresistible tale.” —The Washington Post Book World“Gripping….An edge-of-the-seat read.” —People DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY“[Larson] relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel….a dynamic, enveloping book.”—The New York Times“A hugely engrossing chronicle of events public and private. Exceedingly well-documented, exhaustive without being excessive, and utterly fascinating.”—Chicago Tribune “An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep-defying fiction.” —Time Out New York ISAAC’S STORM “A gripping account…fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —New York Times Book Review“Superb...Larson has made the Great Hurricane live again.” —The Wall Street Journal“Gripping….The Jaws of hurricane yarns.” —Newsday
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ERIK LARSON is the author of the national bestsellers Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac's Storm. ErikLarsonBooks.com
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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Crown; 1st edition (2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 030740885X
ISBN-13: 978-0307408853
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1.2 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
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In the Garden of Beasts is an amazing book. It is a nonfiction account that reads with the ease and entertainment of a good novel. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. When I was reading it, I was engrossed.Larson uses letters, journals and papers to tell the story of William Dodd, Ambassador to Germany in the thirties, of his daughter (Martha), and of Hitler's rise viewed through their eyes. Martha, socialite and party to many romantic escapades, found herself in a position to garner information that the Ambassador couldn't know and become the center of several intrigues herself. As for Ambassador Dodd, as he became more disillusioned with (and ultimately more fully aware of) Hitler's Germany, he became more of an outcast with the "in crowd" of the State Department, creating an entirely different, but important, conspiracy of sorts.Despite knowing the ultimate outcome of the Dodds' adventure, In the Garden of Beasts is still a page turner and thoroughly fascinating. It was with reluctance that I turned the last page, and said good bye to these people that had consumed my mind so completely.Larson's apparently has the ability to write a biographical account in such a way that makes it more enjoyable than most fiction. (I've not read The Devil in the White City, but that has been moved to the top of my to-read list.) I can not recommend this enough, regardless of your interest in the subject. My initial interest was not high, but I came away with new understanding and knowledge of the time period, US and German politics, and ultimately, human nature. In the Garden of Beasts is a must read.
Larson focuses on the first two years of the Nazi era in Germany, 1933-1934, when Chicago history professor William Dodd went to Berlin to serve as US ambassador. He was accompanied by his family, including his daughter Martha, who was 24 years old when they arrived in Germany.Martha Dodd dated a series of dangerous boyfriends in Berlin, including a Soviet spy and the chief of the Gestapo secret police. In what may be the most ill-advised matchmaking attempt in world history, a mutual friend even tried to set her up with Adolf Hitler himself, although it never progressed beyond one brief meeting between the German leader and the American ambassador's daughter.Foreign Service Officers may find the description of the 1930s-era Foreign Service to be of interest. Half-jokingly described as the "Pretty Good Club," the Foreign Service was then comprised mostly of wealthy men who were able to spend well beyond their government salaries while overseas. Anti-Semitic attitudes were both common and socially acceptable in the State Department of that era, which helps explain why America failed so miserably to accept Jewish refugees from Germany during the 1930s.Wisconsin residents and University of Wisconsin alumni may be interested in a supporting character in the book, Milwaukee native and UW-Madison alumna Mildred Fish Harnack. She had moved to Germany and was a friend of the Dodd family in Berlin. Although she was an American citizen, she stayed in Germany after the war began, organized a anti-Nazi resistance group, and was executed by the guillotine on Hitler's orders in 1943. The University of Wisconsin Law School has an annual human rights lecture series named in her honor.
An interesting angle on the history of Hitler's early years in power in Berlin. While her father is serving as Roosevelt's ambassador to Germany, Martha Dodd cavorted with Nazis, journalists, and foreign diplomats, including one from the USSR with whom she developed an intense on-again-off-again relationship. Both she and Ambassador Dodd were somewhat slow to recognize the full extent of the horrors being committed by the emerging Nazi regime. Dodd, an academic by nature who was far from Roosevelt's first choice for the job, finally began sounding the alarm and recommending preemptive action to avoid another world war but was seen as a Casandra by the old-boys club in the Department of State. Ultimately, of course, his warnings were proven to be correct but by then the Nazi war machine was too powerful to stop short of all-out war. Larson, has a knack for bringing history alive. Readable and Entertaining.
Larson does an excellent job transporting the reader back to the early days of the Third Reich, and the increasingly hostile and menacing climate which was developing for anyone not a member of the favored Aryan class, and of course, particularly the Jewish people who were subjected to ever more indignities. The book focuses on the idealistic new American ambassador and his family, who initially are determined to think the best of Hitler and Germany in general, certain that the Hitler and his various lieutenants are merely full of patriotic zeal and the desire to restore Germany as a healthy thriving country following the deprivations of WWI. Much time is spent on seeing the evolving situation through the eyes of the Ambassador's daughter as her understanding develops as a consequence of her various relationships and liaisons. This is for me, the book's primary flaw. Too much of the story is developed around the perspective of a relatively uneducated and unsophisticated dilettante who is mostly interested in her next date, and stubbornly persists in seeing the Nazis as well intentioned young men. This makes the book a more fun read in many ways, but it glosses over the underlying issues and events that lead to the rise of Hitler and the horror of Nazi Germany. It does, however, make it easier to understand how so many bought into the idea, that this was just a man tapping into nationalist, patriotic fervor, and not someone who would be allowed to develop into one of the most monstrous public figures in the history of mankind. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in Nazi Germany and the ominous and portentous early days of Hitler's rise. There are modern parallels to be drawn as well.
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