Hannah Arendt : the last interview and other conversations / Joachim C. Fest ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fest, Joachim C., 1926-2006, author.

Contributor:

Winston, Richard, translator.

Winston, Clara, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Interviews.

Arendt, Hannah.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (856 p.)

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler." - Time A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Perhaps most importantly, he also brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality that aimed for and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale. As history and biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it: "dispassionately, but from the inside" ( Time ).

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""ALSO BY JOACHIM C. FEST""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Prologue Hitler and Historical Greatness""; ""I AN AIMLESS LIFE""; ""1. Background and Departure""; ""2. The Shattered Dream""; ""3. The Granite Foundation""; ""4. The Flight to Munich""; ""5. Redemption by War""; ""Interpolation I The Great Dread""; ""II THE ROAD TO POLITICS""; ""1. A Part of the German Future""; ""2. Local Triumphs""; ""3. Challenging the Powers that Be""; ""4. The Putsch""; ""III THE LONG WAIT""; ""1. The Vision""; ""2. Crises and Resistances""

""3. Deployment for Battle""""IV THE TIME OF STRUGGLE""; ""1. From Provincial to National Politics""; ""2. The Landslide""; ""3. At the Gates of Power""; ""4. At the Goal""; ""Interpolation II German Catastrophe or German Consistency?""; ""V SEIZURE OF POWER""; ""1. Legal Revolution""; ""2. On the Way to the Fuhrer State""; ""3. The Rohm Affair""; ""VI THE YEARS OF PREPARATION""; ""1. The Age of Faits Accomplis""; ""2. View of an Unperson""; ""3. The ""Greatest German in History""""; ""4. Unleashing the War""; ""Interpolation III The Wrong War""; ""VII VICTORS AND VANQUISHED""

""1. The Generalissimo""""2. The Third World War""; ""3. Lost Reality""; ""VIII CATASTROPHE""; ""1. Oppositions""; ""2. Gotterdammerung""; ""Conclusion The Dead End""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

A Harvest book.

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 817-829) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780544195547

054419554X