I recently read a book review called “The Great Mediocrity” in the New York Times, regarding the book Hitler by A.N. Wilson, and I thought I’d share some excerpts from it <link>.
Wilson, the author of several biographies, including lives of Tolstoy and Jesus, evocatively catalogs the qualities of the young Hitler. The future dictator who would seek to dominate the world was breathtakingly lazy. He exhibited a pathetic inability to succeed as an art student; a habitual hostility to paid employment…
Wilson is also effective when he recreates Hitler’s rise to political prominence. He imaginatively identifies Hitler as a sort of “hypnotic” performance artist who could hold a crowd rapt for hours with his operatic rants. It was Hitler’s singular skill as an orator that set him above his National Socialist colleagues.
For much of the book, Wilson’s decisions on what to emphasize are sound. He makes palpably real for readers the cataclysmic effects of economic collapse…
God bless the fighting men of the Allied powers in WWII who defeated this monster and his fascist machine.
May the world never see such darkness again…and yet we know we will.
Depending on where you look there are many websites that compare the Fraud Manchurian to Hitler in many respects. Is it wrong or right, well that is personal opinion. I am hoping November delivers us a candidate that is less thin skinned and one who is willing to undo the damage as we are seeing our sovereignty willingly eroded by weakness and unwillingness to do the right thing.
That’s funny, I didn’t even think of the parallel between the descriptions and the current Occupier…. ;-()
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mostert/081106