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March 16, 2012
History Ain't Fiction
Ouch: "Novelists (notably Mann) and literary scholars (such as J P Stern)have sometimes managed to use a novel angle of approach to say something new and provocative about Hitler, the Nazis and the German people. However, there is no evidence of that here, neither in the stale, unoriginal material, nor in the banal and cliché-ridden historical judgements, nor in the lame, tired narrative style; just evidence of the repellent arrogance of a man who thinks that because he's a celebrated novelist, he can write a book about Hitler that people should read, even though he's put very little work into writing it and even less thought." -- New Statesman - Hitler: a Short Biography
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 16, 2012 8:17 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.