Lewis M. Weinstein's Blog, page 10
March 20, 2016
* Lew’s review of JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson
*** JUST MERCY is a ringing denunciation of the way prosecutors, police officers and judges conspire to get convictions without having the evidence. How do they do this? They cheat. They make up evidence. They create and intimidate witnesses by threats and bribes. They hide exculpatory evidence they are required by law to give to […]
March 18, 2016
* Coming soon … An Evening with Frank
On May 26, 1978, I attended Frank Sinatra’s last appearance at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill NJ. Seated near the stage, I shot one roll of ASA 400 black and white film. It took about 25 minutes from start to finish.Sometime that summer, my friend Susan Rose developed the film and printed the photographs. For almost 38 years, […]
March 4, 2016
* Lew’s books at Books and Books
Great news! All of my titles are now available at Books and Books at 533 Eaton St in Key West. Even “Hereje,” which is “The Heretic” in Spanish. But not A FLOOD OF EVIL, which is not yet published (soon!).
February 21, 2016
* Monsignor Tom Hartman
Monsignor Thomas Hartman – Father Tom – died this weekend. I first met Monsignor Hartman at the 92nd Street Y in NYC where he opened his talk by saying “The Church did horrible things to the Jews and we were wrong.” Subsequently, he wrote a very thoughtful foreword to my novel THE HERETIC. Father Tom was everything […]
January 13, 2016
* Lew’s Goodreads review of “The Twisted Road to Aushwitz” by Karl A. Schleunes
This is one of the first books (published in 1970) to put the persecution of Jews by the Nazis into a sequential narrative context, and it is still valuable today even after many other works have added information not available to Schleunes. The Nazi efforts to achieve the Jew-free Germany demanded by Hitler […]
December 26, 2015
A FLOOD OF EVIL ... Update
I have completed a major revision and tightening of the entire draft and it is currently in the hands of “early readers.”
Here’s my first draft of a book jacket description. Your comments are welcome …
A FLOOD OF EVIL
Do you believe it’s impossible for another Hitler-like menace to emerge in Europe or the United States? Actually, there are conditions today that provide frightening parallels to those in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and early 1930s. It is important for all of us to understand how Hitler came to power, how his rise could have been stopped, and who chose not to oppose him.
Lewis Weinstein has written a bone-chilling novel that explores these issues through the eyes of two young people, one a German Catholic and the other a Polish Jew, who were extraordinarily positioned to understand what was happening as they worked with powerful people in both countries who sought to keep Hitler from power.
Berthold Becker was drawn into the Nazi orbit because his older brother was viewed as a martyr who had saved Hitler’s life in the 1923 Putsch attempt. He sees the leaders of the Nazi world from the inside.
Anna Gorska leaves her Polish shtetl and becomes an internationally respected journalist with access to the powerful.
Berthold and Anna fall in love and work together in a dangerous and ultimately futile quest to keep Hitler from power.
A FLOOD OF EVIL takes place in the years from 1923 to 1933, from the beginnings of the Nazi Party to Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor.
Here’s my first draft of a book jacket description. Your comments are welcome …
A FLOOD OF EVIL
Do you believe it’s impossible for another Hitler-like menace to emerge in Europe or the United States? Actually, there are conditions today that provide frightening parallels to those in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and early 1930s. It is important for all of us to understand how Hitler came to power, how his rise could have been stopped, and who chose not to oppose him.
Lewis Weinstein has written a bone-chilling novel that explores these issues through the eyes of two young people, one a German Catholic and the other a Polish Jew, who were extraordinarily positioned to understand what was happening as they worked with powerful people in both countries who sought to keep Hitler from power.
Berthold Becker was drawn into the Nazi orbit because his older brother was viewed as a martyr who had saved Hitler’s life in the 1923 Putsch attempt. He sees the leaders of the Nazi world from the inside.
Anna Gorska leaves her Polish shtetl and becomes an internationally respected journalist with access to the powerful.
Berthold and Anna fall in love and work together in a dangerous and ultimately futile quest to keep Hitler from power.
A FLOOD OF EVIL takes place in the years from 1923 to 1933, from the beginnings of the Nazi Party to Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor.
* A Flood of Evil … update
I have completed a major revision and tightening of the entire draft and it is currently in the hands of “early readers.” Thanks so much to all of the early readers who have already read portions of my novel and provided valuable comments. Here’s my first draft of a book jacket description. Your comments are […]
November 21, 2015
* a new review of THE HERETIC
Linda’s review of THE HERETIC on GoodReads (Aug 2015) … A well written story that will pull at your heartstrings because of the amount of loss and betrayal that occurs when the Catholic Church decides there can be no other religions to compete with them in Spain. Gabriel Catalan and his family live in […]
September 7, 2015
* Lew’s comments on “Once We Were Brothers” by Ronald Balson
A compelling read. Several issues raised by Balson resonate sharply with me as I work through similar questions in my own new novel. WARNING … POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW ,,, Ben hates his former friend and “brother” Otto for failing to save his parents and others from Nazi torture and murder but gives no credence to […]
August 16, 2015
* reviews of THE HERETIC on Goodreads … I have to admit I love to read these reviews … thanks to everyone for your kind words
Cathy DuPont rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone who enjoys a great story told well. If I kept a GR shelf for family sagas, this book would be proudly placed there along withThe Pillars of the Earth, Gone With the Wind, and The Age Of Innocence. In my mind they […]
