Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum
Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum
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Explaining Hitler
The Search for the Origins of His Evil

Author: Ron Rosenbaum

Narrator: Steve Quinn

Unabridged: 22 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2023

Synopsis

In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a subject both frightening and profound, this is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories, “a provocative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart” (New York Times).First published in 1998 to rave reviews, Explaining Hitler became a New York Times–bestseller. This edition is an update of that classic and a critically important contribution to the study of the twentieth century's darkest moment.

About Ron Rosenbaum

Ron Rosenbaum's books include The Shakespeare Wars, How the End Begins, and The Secret Parts of Fortune, a collection of his nonfiction writing which has appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, among other periodicals. He has also edited an anthology about contemporary anti-Semitism, Those Who Forget the Past.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 09, 2024

Everybody steals this phrase now and Ron Rosenbaum stole it too - this facemelting book could/should have been called What We Talk About When We Talk About Hitler. Because that's what it's about. This is a great chatty whistle-stop world tour of Hitler scholars and Hitler theories. And oh my my, wha......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on September 09, 2015

Foreword to the Review This review was posted over a period of 19 days, more like "notes for a review". My perception of the book has changed as I read on, and the afterword to the current eition, appended at the last, regrettably brought it down a few notches. IMO, victimisation in the past does not......more

Goodreads review by Donald on August 04, 2020

This is a long and exhaustive book about Hitler. The author fairly, honestly and earnestly reviews theories, histories, and explanations about Hitler and the Holocaust. Every in and out of every theory, philosophy and even theocracy is examined and analyzed. The depth of examination on all of the to......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on January 10, 2018

This was an excellent book. Rosenbaum was trying to explain Hitler and even put in notes that were in other books about HItler, and how they tried to explain him. No one ever could, not even Rosenbaum. At best I would say that like Donald Trump, Hitler was a buffoon. He was not taken seriously, unti......more

Goodreads review by Ivan on March 10, 2018

Ho riletto il libro proprio in questi giorni, anche se per sommi capi, e mentre la volta scorsa mi ero più concentrato sull'apprendere dati, questa volta ho seguito più le indicazioni dell'autore, i suoi propositi. Nell'introduzione Rosenbaum dice infatti che vuole presentare le varie interpretazion......more

Quotes

"Brilliant...restlessly probing and deeply intelligent"—Time"A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time"—David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb"Fascinating...A provocative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart.... Mr. Rosenbaum has made an important contribution to our understanding not just of Hitler, but of the cultural processes by which we try to come to terms with history as well.... He has written an exciting, lucid book informed by old-fashioned moral rigor and common sense." —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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