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  <title>Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris</title>
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  <name>Ian Kershaw</name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kershaw's book is the best I have encountered at helping the reader to understand how someone like Hitler was able to become the supreme ruler of Germany. The book starts out as an excellent biography of Hitler's early years, but in the mid-1920s it changes into more of a sociological history of Germany between the wars: why the Weimar Republic failed, what average Germans cared about, and what it was about Hitler's message that resonated with the people and why. Hitler himself is such a cipher - a one-dimensional character with little depth or recognizable personality - that the book necessarily becomes more of a biography of those around Hitler who enabled his rise to power. <br/><br/>The first volume of a two-book set, &quot;Hubris&quot; leaves off in 1936 at the zenith of Hitler's power, before he began charting the course that would inevitably lead to war and his own downfall as well as that of Germany. I can't wait to start reading the second volume.]]></body>
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