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A gripping saga of love, intrigue, and terror at the American embassy in Berlin during Hitler’s first year in power, by the bestselling author of Devil in the White City.
Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd is a mild-mannered academic from Chicago who to his own and everyone else’s surprise becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd moves his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha, to the city where they observe firsthand the many changes–some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent–that signaled Hitler’s consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party, and Martha has one dalliance after another with them, including the charismatic and surprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. The year darkens steadily, and both Dodd and his daughter find their lives gradually transformed until the bloody “Night of the Long Knives” establishes Hitler as supreme dictator and shatters any last illusions Dodd and his daughter harbor about his true character. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, and Himmler, In the Garden of Beasts lends a unique, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is an unforgettable, addictively readable work of narrative nonfiction.
