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- catalog abstract "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 Hitler's 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.".
- catalog contributor b10543743.
- catalog coverage "Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Historiographical problems -- The crystallization, Vienna and/or Munich? -- Reactionary and/or revolutionary? -- State; people; race; nation -- Statesman and strategist -- The Jews: tragedy and mystery -- The Germans: chapter or episode? -- Admirers and defenders, open and hidden -- The historical problem. rc".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index.".
- catalog description "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 Hitler's 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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 279 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hitler of history.".
- catalog identifier "0679446494".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hitler of history.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Hitler of history.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "943.086/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "DD247.H5 L84 1997".
- catalog subject "Heads of state Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.".
- catalog subject "National socialism Germany.".
- catalog subject "National socialism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Historiographical problems -- The crystallization, Vienna and/or Munich? -- Reactionary and/or revolutionary? -- State; people; race; nation -- Statesman and strategist -- The Jews: tragedy and mystery -- The Germans: chapter or episode? -- Admirers and defenders, open and hidden -- The historical problem. rc".
- catalog title "The Hitler of history / John Lukacs.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".