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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monsterBefore Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich. Everything that would come--the rallies and riots, the single-minded deployment of a catastrophically evil idea--all of it crystallized in one defining year. 1924 was the year that Hitler spent locked away from society, in prison and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. It was a year of deep reading and intensive writing, a year of courtroom speeches and a treason trial, a year of slowly walking gravel paths and spouting ideology while working feverishly on the book that became his manifesto: Mein Kampf.
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Peter Ross Range is a world-traveled author and journalist who has covered war, politics, history and international affairs. A specialist in Germany, he has written extensively for Time, the New York Times, National Geographic, the London Sunday Times Magazine, Playboy, and U.S. News & World Report, where he was a White House Correspondent. Range has written two books on Adolf Hitler. His newest is The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power. Range has been an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. Fluent in German and near-fluent in French, he has covered topics ranging from civil rights to Vietnam, from Wimbledon to Japanese business, from the invention of cable news television to a yoga store murder. When not writing, he likes to play tennis.
