In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlinby Erik Larson.“Tells the story of the unlikely American Ambassador to Germany in 1933.William Dodd is a political outsider when Roosevelt chooses him for the post and it haunts him throughout his tenure in Berlin.We see the rise of Hitler and the spread of the Nazi mindset through the eyes of Dodd and his daughter Martha.Martha is very taken with the Nazis at first, enjoying many relationships with Nazis and communists in positions of power.I enjoyed the sense of being in Germany at this pivotal time.Larson immerses you in the setting, the atmosphere, the tension of prewar Germany."

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