Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Rosenbaum, Ron
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (First Edition Softcover Release)
An Extraordinary, Deeply Unsettling Historiographical Expedition into the Enigma of Ultimate Destructive Will
An Extraordinary, Deeply Unsettling Historiographical Expedition into the Enigma of Ultimate Destructive Will
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
- Author: Ron Rosenbaum
- Publisher: Macmillan, London
- Publication Date: 1998
- ISBN-10: 0333746333
- ISBN-13: 9780333746332
- Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Softcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge illustrated card wrappers (trade paperback).
- Physical Format: Super Octavo (8vo), 444 pages. Complete with an extensive cross-referenced thematic index, primary archival notes, and critical source logs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Exterior / Wraps: The original illustrated card wrappers are exceptionally flat, square, crisp, and bright. The panels exhibit incredible color retention with absolutely no signs of standard perimeter wear, edge curling, or storage friction. The spine is completely straight, tight, structurally secure, and entirely unbroken—free of vertical reading creases or hinge stress.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately preserved. Internal text pages are bright, white, clean, and fully intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, previous owner ink inscriptions, library name stamps, dealer pencil markings, or dog-ears. This copy has clearly been meticulously maintained and looked after thus far.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1998, Explaining Hitler is historian-journalist Ron Rosenbaum’s brilliant, paradigm-shifting masterwork that explores the intense intellectual battlefield surrounding Adolf Hitler's psychological identity. When the physical war ended in Berlin's bunker in 1945, a complex historiographical war over who Hitler really was and what gave birth to his unique brand of evil had just begun. Rather than producing a conventional biography, Rosenbaum spends ten years "explaining the explainers"—conducting searing, direct debates with legendary intellectuals, historians, and philosophers like Alan Bullock, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Claude Lanzmann, and Emil Fackenheim. The text tackles the profound exceptionalist debate: Was Hitler an incomprehensible aberration completely outside human history, or was he a deeply calculated actor on the natural continuum of human destructive possibility? This scarce first-edition softcover is a passionate, enthralling expedition that exposes what our theories of ultimate evil reveal about the perpetrators, about the historians, and ultimately about ourselves.
Published in 1998, Explaining Hitler is historian-journalist Ron Rosenbaum’s brilliant, paradigm-shifting masterwork that explores the intense intellectual battlefield surrounding Adolf Hitler's psychological identity. When the physical war ended in Berlin's bunker in 1945, a complex historiographical war over who Hitler really was and what gave birth to his unique brand of evil had just begun. Rather than producing a conventional biography, Rosenbaum spends ten years "explaining the explainers"—conducting searing, direct debates with legendary intellectuals, historians, and philosophers like Alan Bullock, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Claude Lanzmann, and Emil Fackenheim. The text tackles the profound exceptionalist debate: Was Hitler an incomprehensible aberration completely outside human history, or was he a deeply calculated actor on the natural continuum of human destructive possibility? This scarce first-edition softcover is a passionate, enthralling expedition that exposes what our theories of ultimate evil reveal about the perpetrators, about the historians, and ultimately about ourselves.
Author Profile: Ron Rosenbaum
Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) is a highly distinguished American author, essayist, and investigative cultural journalist. After studying literature at Yale University, he built an exceptional reputation writing for prominent publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. Widely praised by academics for his sharp literary journalism and accessible narrative pace, Rosenbaum specialized in exploring complex psychological enigmas and the deep structural mechanics of modern belief systems. His notable books, including The Secret Parts of Fortune and Those Who Forget the Past, are celebrated by researchers for balancing rigorous historical cross-examinations with a compelling, human-centric narrative tone.
Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) is a highly distinguished American author, essayist, and investigative cultural journalist. After studying literature at Yale University, he built an exceptional reputation writing for prominent publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. Widely praised by academics for his sharp literary journalism and accessible narrative pace, Rosenbaum specialized in exploring complex psychological enigmas and the deep structural mechanics of modern belief systems. His notable books, including The Secret Parts of Fortune and Those Who Forget the Past, are celebrated by researchers for balancing rigorous historical cross-examinations with a compelling, human-centric narrative tone.
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