Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
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American actor and film producer (born 1956)
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Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mildmannered professor from Chicago,...
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