{"product_id":"the-hitler-of-history-9780679446491","title":"The Hitler of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant  strikingly original book  historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitlers life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.  Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler  and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously  the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process  by making Hitlers biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry  Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history.  Like an attorney  Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities  methods  and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history  particularly in this arena); he looks at what is still not known (and probably never will be) about Hitler; he considers various crucial aspects of the real Hitler; and he shows how different biographers have either advanced our understanding or gone off track. By singling out those who have been involved in  or co-opted into  an implicit \"rehabilitation of Hitler \" Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitlers essential differences from other monsters of history  such as Napoleon  Mussolini  and Stalin  and--equally important--about Hitlers place in the history of this century and of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529564708917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679446494","price":70.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679446491.jpg?v=1780937926","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hitler-of-history-9780679446491","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}