{"product_id":"goebbels-a-biography-9781400067510b","title":"Goebbels: A Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. By the end, no one in the Berlin bunker was closer to the Fuhrer than his devoted Reich minister for public enlightenment and propaganda. But how did this clubfooted son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this ground-breaking biography, Peter Longerich sifts through the historical record - and thirty thousand pages of Goebbels's own diary entries - to provide the answer to that question. Longerich, the first historian to make use of the Goebbels diaries in a biographical work, engages and challenges the self-serving portrait the propaganda chief left behind. Spanning thirty years, the diaries paint a chilling picture of a man driven by a narcissistic desire for recognition who found the personal affirmation he craved within the virulently racist National Socialist movement. Delving into the mind of his subject, Longerich reveals how Goebbels's lifelong search for a charismatic father figure inexorably led him to Hitler, to whom he ascribed almost godlike powers.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42818723414096,"sku":"9781400067510B","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781400067510-l.jpg?v=1785873019","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/goebbels-a-biography-9781400067510b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}