Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions Into the AbyssAt the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths--certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees's social, psychological, and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans. (With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations) |
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Contents
Introduction | 4 |
Making a Connection | 21 |
The Man Who Will Come | 81 |
The Importance of Enemies | 108 |
The Lure of the Radical | 117 |
IO The Thrill of Release | 131 |
The Great Gamble | 179 |
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| Title | Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions Into the Abyss |
| Author | Laurence Rees |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0307389588, 9780307389589 |
| Length | 354 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Political History / Europe / Germany History / Holocaust History / Military / World War II Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism Psychology / Psychopathology / General |
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