Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum

Explaining Hitler (Macmillan UK Paperback Edition, 1998)

A Journalist's Interviews with the Historians and Thinkers Who Tried to Account for Hitler

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
• Author: Ron Rosenbaum
• Publisher: Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN-13: 9780333746332
• ISBN-10: 0333734572
• Edition Details: Macmillan (London) paperback edition, 1998; first published in 1998 by Random House Inc.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated paperback wrappers, perfect bound.
• Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback format). Illustrated with photographs on the cover and title page.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: Black pictorial wrappers, clean overall but showing signs of reading. A small white scuff to the spine at the front hinge, near the top third, continues onto the edge of the front cover. Light creasing along the spine. The corners and edges are lightly rubbed and the text block edges are toned yellow. A price sticker is fixed to the back cover.
• Interior: The pages are toned cream, clean and legible. The binding is firm. There is a slight nick to the top right edge of the title page. No markings, inscriptions or ex-library marks.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

First published in 1998, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil is Ron Rosenbaum's wide-ranging survey of the many attempts to account for Hitler. Rather than offering a single thesis, Rosenbaum interviews the historians, biographers and thinkers who have wrestled with the question, weighs their competing theories, and asks whether Hitler's evil can be explained at all.

The book also recounts the little-reported work of the anti-Hitler journalists of the Munich Post, who published exposés of the Nazis from 1920 to 1933.

This is the Macmillan UK edition of the book, a useful and readable copy for anyone building a library on twentieth-century history and the historiography of Nazism.

Author Profile: Ron Rosenbaum

Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) is an American literary journalist, literary critic and novelist. He graduated from Yale in 1968 and wrote for The Village Voice, Esquire, Harper's, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine and Slate, among others.

His other books include The Shakespeare Wars (2006) and How the End Begins. He has also taught at Columbia's journalism school.

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