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Review of In the Garden of Beasts

Review of In the Garden of Beasts

By Eric on July 25, 2011

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson, Crown 2011, 464 pages Reviewed by Eric Olsen      @2bwriters I wrote in an earlier “Books by the Bed” that while I have many books and magazines by my bed for a little end-of-day reading, I can usually manage about [...]

Posted in Book Review | Tagged economic turmoil, Eric Olsen, Erik Larson, fringe political party, Gleichschaltung, In the Garden of Beasts, nonfiction, unemployment, William E. Dodd | 1 Response

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