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Join the Library's Nonfiction Book Club, in collaboration with the Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit, for a discussion of the book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. The book discussion will take place on Wednesday, June 24 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, in the Dunaway Community Room.
To request a copy of In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin prior to the discussion, please contact Bradley Peate at [email protected], or 970-429-1941.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance -- and ultimately horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder unmasks Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.