![]() ![]() Seemingly a lot more helpful for the historian/researcher than the average reader. There are even several indices at the end where one can find specific speeches/pages that cover a myriad of topics. The most valuable parts of the book are running commentary on the different stages in Hitler's career/rule, historical context, and a sampling of the international response to many of the speeches. My new order: edited with commentary by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, with an introduction by Raymond Gram Swing. Even being selective about what speeches were included, there was a lot of repetition and hyperbole. Ultimately, though, Hitler is rather tiresome to read. Dust jacket has some minor wear along the edges, and some water damage at the bottom of the spine, only visible on the reverse of the jacket. Hitler and Trump do have a certain rhetorical style in common, but much the same could be said about demagogues throughout history. Description: First edition copy of Adolf Hitler's My New Order, an account of Hitler's life from 1918 through 1941, including speeches and commentary by de Sales. The Hitler comparison (aka, Godwin's Law) gets invoked a lot with Trump, so I thought that maybe getting a sense of Hitler's style would explain some things. But again: Why read it? I suspect that only Neo-Nazis would actually want to read it for its own sake, whereas I was curious as to style, content and, most importantly, context. Why read a book of Hitler's speeches? I will admit that the only reason I became aware of this was an early-90's GQ (or was it Vanity Fair?) interview with Trump in which then-wife Ivana mentioned that he had this book on a bedside table. ![]()
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