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Robert Dallek, a luminary in neuro-scientific politics biography - author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times best-selling biography of John F. Kennedy - offers here a glance at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical bill, Democrat and Diplomat exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s Germany and explores the terrible burden of those who recognized the horror that was to come. Dodd was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, arriving in Berlin along with his wife and girl in the same way Hitler assumed the chancellorship. An improbable candidate for the work - and not Leader Roosevelt's first choice - Dodd quickly emerged to understand that the problem in Germany was considerably grimmer than was understood in the us. His early on optimism was soon changed by dire records on the treatment of Jewish people and his pessimism about the future of Germany and European countries. Finding unwilling listeners back the U.S., Dodd clashed repeatedly with the State Department, as well as the Nazi government, during his time as ambassador. He eventually resigned and went back to America, despairing and in ill-health. Dodd's report was helped bring into general population prominence this past year by Erik Larsen's New York Times best-seller The Garden of Beasts. Dallek's biography, first released in 1968 and now in paperback for the very first time, tells the full story of the man and his doomed years in the darkness of pre-War Berlin.
