Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin > Status Update

"Amid the many rumors of coming upheaval, it remained difficult for Dodd and his peers in the diplomatic corps to imagine that Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels could endure much longer. Dodd still saw them as inept and dangerous adolescents ... who found themselves confronting an accumulation of daunting troubles."

Many disturbing parallels between this history and our current events.

Well, I guess it's as good a time as any to read a book about Hitler's rise to power. Many people have recommended Larson's work and this book in particular, and it's off to an excellent start.