Just 284 days after July 20, 1944, the earthly lives of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler both came to an abrupt end. If Stalingrad was the military turning point in the war for Germany, then July 20 was surely the societal. Hitler had promised a classless military and civilian Fatherland even before he became chancellor and he was about to complete the fulfillment of that promise. He had been covertly destroying the historic officer class in Germany long before Stalingrad, but the assassination attempt gave him the opportunity to accelerate the purge and include the nobility and civilian leaders who opposed him. Specific information about the coup attempt was a closely guarded secret at the time and its investigation was the Gestapo's number one priority even as the Russians approached Berlin. It is possible today to reliably reconstruct and connect important events and related biographies of the principle characters, coherently piecing together the post-July 20 history. It's the story of the disappearance of Germany's officer class, and for a time, its nobility and civilian leadership; all of which has become part of Hitler's other legacy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781476671529 20190121

In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger seeks not just to explore the successes and failures of an important political figure who spent more than three decades in the national eye-and whose son would become Vice President of the United States-but also to explain the dramatic changes in the South that led to national political realignment. Born on a small farm in the hills of Tennessee, Gore served in Congress from 1938 to 1970, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. During that time, the United States became a global superpower and the South a two party desegregated region. Gore, whom Badger describes as a policy-oriented liberal, saw the federal government as the answer to the South's problems. He held a resilient faith, according to Badger, in the federal government to regulate wages and prices in World War II, to further social welfare through the New Deal and the Great Society, and to promote economic growth and transform the infrastructure of the South. Gore worked to make Tennessee the "atomic capital" of the nation and to protect the Tennessee Valley Authority, while at the same time cosponsoring legislation to create the national highway system. He was more cautious in his approach to civil rights; though bolder than his moderate Southern peers, he struggled to adjust to the shifting political ground of the 1960s. His career was defined by his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, whose Vietnam policies Gore bitterly opposed. The injection of Christian perspectives into the state's politics ultimately distanced Gore's worldview from that of his constituents. Altogether, Gore's political rise and fall, Badger argues, illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780812250725 20190204

• Einleitung : Glücklich ist, Wer Vergisst
• Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns
• Der Kulturkampf gegen "Schmutz und Schund"
• Die "deutsche Mutter" erzieht noch immer wie bei Adolf Hitler
• Horst Wessel und die Verteidigung des Abendlands
• Die Fachleute wissen, wie es geht
• Josef Mengele
• Deutschland braucht einen Kommissar wie Horst Tappert
• Es geht einfach nicht weg, es ist immer da
• Überall Verrat : der Kommunismus Bedroht die Bundesrepublik
• Bei Heidegger in Todtnauberg
• Volksgemeinschaft
• Feind hört mit!
• Die Rote Kapelle
• Einmal Verräter
• Ein Abgrund von Landesverrat : die Spiegel-Affäre
• Geschichte wird gemacht : noch einmal die Rote Kapelle
• Eine Frage der Ehre : mit Hitlers Soldaten Wird die Bundesrepublik Remilitarisiert
• "Soll man die Deutschen bewaffnen?"
• Kriegsheimkehrer im Bundestag
• Deutschland braucht Soldaten
• Heiss' Mich Nicht Reden, Heiss' Mich Schweigen : Jean Améry und Hans Egon Holthusen : Wenn ein KZ-Überlebender auf Einen SS-Mann Trifft
• Die schwarze Uniform der SS
• Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Emigranten Thomas Mann
• Plädoyer für den einzelnen SS-Mann
• "Was haben Sie eigentlich gelernt aus dem Irrtum von dazumal?"
• Ein Auftritt in Werner Höfers "Internationalem Frühschoppen"
• Wer Bin ich? Aus Hans Schneider Wird Hans Schwerte
• Das Experiment
• Das Deutscheste vom Deutschen und der Fall Harlan
• Kristallisationspunkt Erlangen
• Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer gegen Thomas Mann
• Benno von Wiese versteht die Welt nicht mehr
• "Die Schauspielerei soll auch einmal ein Ende haben"
• "Dieses Schmierblatt Wird Ja Leider Gottes Gelesen" : Konrad Adenauer Versucht, die Medien zu Kontrollieren
• Der Kanzler fühlt sich verfolgt und sorgt für die Entlassung eines FAZ-Herausgebers
• Der Spiegel als einzige Opposition
• Adenauer will ein Propagandaministerium und entdeckt das Fernsehen
• Die Spiegel-Affäre
• Deutschland Hat die Wahl : "Ein Stück Machtwechsel", Der Zwanzig Jahre auf Sich Warten Lässt
• Die Welt im Kalten Krieg
• Die Boheme geht ihren eigenen Weg
• Widerstand durch Mitarbeit : Ernst von Weizsäcker und die Seinen
• Gustav Heinemann bekommt seine Genugtuung
• Die Herrschaft der alten Männer geht zu Ende
• Schluss
• Anhang
• Anmerkungen
• Personenregister
• Zeittafel
• Dank.

• Prologue
• Before Pearl
• Lights out
• An anxious trip
• Holiday wishes
• Cloudy, turning colder
• An unquiet feeling
• The golden west
• Dark tidings, straight, no sugar
• Games of chance
• Borrowed time
• Last call
• End of the beginning
• Epilogue: December 7, 1942.

For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string of military setbacks in the Pacific; by the autumn of 1942, government officials were openly acknowledging the possibility that the United States might lose the war. Appeals for unity and declarations of support for the war effort in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor made it appear as though the class hostilities and partisan animosities that had beset the United States for decades - and grown sharper during the Depression - suddenly disappeared. They did not, and a deeply divided American society splintered further during 1942 as numerous interest groups sought to turn the wartime emergency to their own advantage. Blunders and repeated displays of incompetence by the Roosevelt administration added to the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that hung over the nation. The Darkest Year focuses on Americans' state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behaviour. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture, including shifts in family roles, race relations, economic pursuits, popular entertainment, education, and the arts.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781250133175 20190408

'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side' Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, the headstrong protagonist decides to volunteer in the Nazi labour camps in Germany. Wishing to disprove what she sees as the lies that are being told about Nazi-Fascism, she instead encounters the horrors of life there - and is changed completely. Shedding her identity, she joins a group of deportees being sent to Dachau concentration camp. She escapes the camp in October 1944, and wanders around a Germany devastated by allied bombardments. Then, in February 1945, while helping dig in rubble seeking to rescue survivors, a wall falls on her and she is left paralysed from the waist down. Translated into English for the first time, Deviation is an autobiographical novel about the repression of memory, and one woman's attempt to make sense of the hell she has lived through.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781782273882 20190318

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Father's Scientific World
• 3. The First World War
• 4. The Promise of Pure Science
• 5. Traveling with Polanyi
• 6. Turbulence and Conformity
• 7. Seizing the Wheel
• 8. The Beginning of Resistance
• 9. Heavy Water and the Atomic Bomb
• 10. The Summer of Decision
• 11. The Uranium Club
• 12. Steadfast to the End
• 13. Rebuilding the World.
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In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, and politics in the Third Reich and in the lives of Karl-Friedrich, his family and his colleagues, including Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Karl-Friedrich was an expert on heavy water, a component of the atomic bomb. During the war, he was caught in the middle between relatives who were trying to kill Hitler and friends who were helping Hitler build a nuclear weapon. Karl-Friedrich emerges as a complex figure-an agnostic whose brother was a renowned theologian, and a chemist who both reluctantly advised German nuclear scientists and collaborated with Paul Rosbaud, a spy for the British. Illuminating the uneasy position of science in twentieth-century Germany, The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer is the story of a man in love with chemistry, his family, and his nation, trying to do right by all of them in the midst of chaos.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319958002 20181119

• "Der Jude Erich Isr. Frey ... ist flüchtig"
• Die Geschichte der Familie Frey bis 1942
• Der Bericht von Erich und Elsbeth Frey (1942)
• Die Situation der Eheleute Frey bis zur Deportation nach Auschwitz 1944
• Deportation und Ermordung von Erich und Elsbeth Frey : gespiegelt in Finanzamtsakten
• Lebenswege der Töchter seit 1939
• Rezeptionsgeschichte
• Danksagung
• Anhang
• Abkürzungen
• Quellen und Literatur
• Bildnachweis
• Personenregister.

• Vorwort / Klaus von Dohnanyi
• Einleitung
• Der Anschluss Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich / Stefan Zweig, Fritz Altmann, Barbara Schoenberg Hannes Schneider, Carl Zuckmayer, Elspeth Cherniavsky
• Entrechtung, Enteignung und Vertreibung / Monica Dugot, Erika Mann, Magdalena M. Wrobel Mirna Funk, Arye Sharuz Shalicar, August Zirner
• Flucht und Emigration / Gabriel Bach, Lore Segal, Thomas Mann, Walter Mehring, Benjamin Pogrund, Ruth Rotem, Ornan Rotem, Lian Rotem-Stibbe, Linda Rachel Sabiers
• Die Novemberpogrome 1938 / Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich Kurt Seelig, Carl von Ossietzky, Erich Kästner Walter Frankenstein, Willy Cohn
• Widerstand und Zivilcourage / Helmut Gollwitzer, Elisabeth Schmitz, Ruth Fromm, Liselotte Herrmann, Ludwig Beck, Georg Elser, Sophie Scholl, Werner Finck
• Im Spiegel der Berichterstattung / Frank Mecklenburg
• Nachwort
• Anhang.

• Introduction
• Mr. Solicitor General
• Wiretapping
• An arsenal for democracy
• Destroyers for bases
• Destroyers for bases : a critique
• Plant seizures
• Presidential prerogative and judicial review
• Lend-lease
• Policy advice
• Conclusion.

President George W. Bush authorized the use of torture. President Barack Obama directed the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen in Yemen. What President Donald Trump will do remains to be seen, but it is broadly understood that a president might test the limits of the law in extraordinary circumstances-and does so with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President is an exploration of this process, viewed through the experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert H. Jackson on the eve of World War II. The book directly and honestly grapples with the ethical problems inherent in advising a president on actions of doubtful legality; eschewing partisan politics, it presents a practical, realistic model for rendering-and judging the propriety of-such advice. Jackson, who would go on to be the chief US prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, was the US solicitor general from 1938-1940, US attorney general from 1940-1941, and Supreme Court justice from 1941-1954. William R. Casto uses his skill and insight as a legal historian to examine the legal arguments advanced by Roosevelt for controversial wartime policies such as illegal wiretapping and unlawful assistance to Great Britain, all of which were related to important issues of national security. Putting these episodes in political and legal context, Casto makes clear distinctions between what the adviser tells the president and what he tells others, including the public, and between advising the president and subsequently facilitating the president's decision. Based upon the real-life experiences of a great attorney general advising a great president, Casto's timely work presents a pragmatic yet ethically powerful approach to giving legal counsel to a president faced with momentous, controversial decisions.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780700627080 20190318

"The last novel by one of Germany's most important postwar writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before Walter Kempowski's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-1945 as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into a state of disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year old son, Peter. As the road beside the house fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof receives strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee--but life continues in the main as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the main characters, until their caution, their hedged bets and provisions, their wondering, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine"-- Provided by publisher.

• Volume
• 1. August 1967-April
• 1968
• Volume
• 2. April 1968-August 1968.

A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. As a novel, Uwe Johnson's masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. Late in 1967, Johnson, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day of the year that lay ahead. The first section was dated August 20, and Johnson had of course no idea what the year would bring--that was part of the challenge--but he did have his main character--Gesine Cresspahl, a German emigre living on the Upper West Side of New York City and working as a translator for a bank who is the single mother of a ten-year-old daughter, Marie. The book would tell the story of a year in the life of this little family in relation to the unfolding story of the year, as winnowed from the pages of the New York Times, of which Gesine is a devoted if wary reader. These stories would in turn be overlayed by another--Gesine is 34, born just as Hitler was coming to power, and she has decided to tell Marie the story of her grandparents' lives and of her own rural childhood in Nazi Germany. It is important that Marie know where and what she comes from. The days of the year are also anniversaries of years past. The world that was and the world of the 1960s--with the struggle for civil rights leading to riots in American cities and, abroad, the escalating destruction of the Vietnam War--are, in the end, one world. Anniversaries was published in four volumes over the more than ten years that it took Johnson to write it, and as the volumes came out it became clear that this was one the great twentieth-century novels. The book courts comparison to Joyce's Ulysses, the book of a day, and to Proust's In Search of Lost Time, the book of a lifetime, but it stands apart in its dense polyphonic interplay of voices and stories. Anniversaries is many books--the book of a mother and daughter, of a family and its generations, of the country and the city, and of two times and two countries that seem farther apart perhaps than they are. It is a novel of private life, a political novel, and a new kind of historical novel, reckoning not only with past history but with history in the making. Monumental and intimate, sweeping in vision and full of incident, richly detailed and endlessly absorbing, Anniversaries, now for the first time available in English in a brilliant new translation by Damion Searls, is nothing short of a revelation.

On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: 'My good friends... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.' Winston Churchill commented: 'You have chosen dishonour and you will have war.' P.E. Caquet's history of the events leading to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath is told for the first time from the point of view of the peoples of Czechoslovakia. Basing his account on countless previously unexamined sources, including Czechoslovakian press, memoirs, private journals, military plans, parliamentary records, film and radio, Caquet presents one of the most shameful episodes in modern European history in a tragic new shape. Among its his most explosive revelations is the strength of the French and Czechoslovak forces before Munich. Germany's dominance turns out to have been an illusion. The case for appeasement never existed. The Czechoslovakian authorities were Cassandras in their own country, the only ones who could see Hitler's threat for what it was. In Caquet's devastating account, their doomed struggle against extinction and the complacency of their notional allies finally gets the memorial it deserves.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781781257104 20181105

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In the Pacific world, Japan had extended its tentacles deeper into China. Susan Dunn dramatically brings to life the most vital and transformational period of Roosevelt's presidency: the hundred days between December 1940 and March 1941, when he mobilized American industry, mustered the American people, initiated the crucial programs and approved the strategic plans for America's leadership in World War II. As the nation began its transition into the preeminent military, industrial, and moral power on the planet, FDR laid out the stunning blueprint not only for war but for the American Century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300203530 20180604

This book focuses on some new issues associated with British appeasement policy in the 1930s. It looks particularly at how the artificial split between international history and military history has led to the over-simplification of the factors involved in formulating the appeasement policy. It argues that, contrary to anti-appeasement mythology, Britain was not left defenceless in 1939, having in fact a highly sophisticated aerial defence system for which Baldwin and Chamberlain have received little credit.Conversely, the disaster of 1940 was not a consequence of the sins of the British appeasers, but the result of a seriously misconceived French strategy, and brilliant German planning. The book further argues that Anglo-Czech relations between 1935 and 1938 showed that both the Foreign Office and anti-appeasers had deep rooted anti-Slav prejudices. However, new Czech research shows a more sympathetic understanding of how, and why, Britain adopted the appeasement policy. Important new Soviet sources are also considered, such as notably the Maisky Diaries (2016), for their relevance to British policy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781527513884 20190114

• Introduction: Fascism as the dictatorship of capital
• The germ of fascism in the prosperous 1920s
• The wonders of American capitalism in the new era
• Fascist processes in capitalist accumulation
• The spectacle of prosperity and necessity of spin
• Every man a capitalist? Fascist ideology of businessmen in 1920s America
• The paradox of capitalist progress, 1922-1929
• Onset of the
• 1929 crisis and the pivot toward fascism
• The general crisis and embryonic fascism in the 1930s
• "Years of the locust" and the call for a Mussolini
• The New Deal as a transition to fascism?
• "A smokescreen over America"
• The class character of embryonic American fascism
• Roosevelt on fascism and the false dichotomy of good vs. bad capitalism
• The seminal work of Robert A. Brady on fascism in the business system
• Conclusion: Fascism and the problem of American exceptionalism.

Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as linked to the essence of monopoly-finance capitalism, operating under the guise of American free-enterprise. But, as Michael Joseph Roberto argues, this is exactly where fascism's embryonic forms began gestating in the United States, during the so-called prosperous 1920s and the Great Depression of the following decade. Drawing from a range of authors who wrote during the 1930s and early 1940s, Roberto examines how the driving force of American fascism comes, not from reactionary movements below, but from the top, namely, Big Business and the power of finance capital. More subtle than its earlier European counterparts, writes Roberto, fascist America's racist, top-down quashing of individual liberties masqueraded as "real democracy, " "upholding the Constitution, " and the pressure to be "100 Percent American." The Coming of the American Behemoth is intended as a primer, to forge much-needed discourse on the nature of fascism, and its particular forms within the United States. The book focuses on the role of the capital-labor relationship during the period between the two World Wars, when the United States became the epicenter of the world-capitalist system. Concentrating on specific processes, which he characterizes as terrorist and non-terrorist alike, Roberto argues that the interwar period was a fertile time for the incubation of a protean form of tyranny - a fascist behemoth in the making, whose emergence has been ignored or dismissed by mainstream historians. This book is a necessity for anyone who fears America tipping ever closer, in this era of Trump, to full-blown fascism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781583677315 20190128

A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the "Final Solution" the motivation for the Third Reich's rise to power, or simply the outcome? A Companion to Nazi Germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party's emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era's lasting legacy, this book offers an in-depth examination of modern history's most infamous reign. Assesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime Provides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich's ideological imperatives Describes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion Delves into the social militarization in the lead-up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place Shows how modern-day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history Today's political climate highlights the critical need to understand how radical nationalist movements gain an audience, then followers, then power. While historical analogy can be a faulty basis for analyzing current events, there is no doubt that examining the parallels can lead to some important questions about the present. Exploring key motivations, environments, and cause and effect, this book provides essential perspective as radical nationalist movements have once again reemerged in many parts of the world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781118936887 20180813

• Une vision du monde. Le long terme du nazisme
• Une vision du monde est d'abord une vision de l'Histoire
• De la fable à la norme : réécriture de l'Histoire et "révolution culturelle"
• Les nazis, les Allemands et les Grecs
• Les relations passionnelles entre Grecs et Allemands
• Peut-on parler de pensée nazie ?
• L'émergence d'une "vision du monde"
• Le nazisme et l'Occident
• Le nazisme et ses normes
• Y a-t-il une culture nazie ?
• Le monde nazi
• La loi du sang
• À quoi peut ressembler un nazi ?
• L'échec des divisions blindées du droit. Les procès politiques du nazisme. Leipzig 1933, Berlin 1944
• L'homme nazi (et ceux qui n'en étaient pas)
• Devenir Hitler
• Heinrich Himmler, le crime et l'intimité
• Ceux qui n'en étaient pas. La résistance allemande à Hitler
• Le nazisme était-il inéluctable ? La république de Weimar
• Comment peut-on être nazi ?
• Le nazisme en actes
• Peut-on faire l'histoire du nazisme ?
• Oradour et les chiens de l'enfer
• Les valeurs dans le Troisième Reich
• Barbares et "bêtes blondes"
• "L'avenir appartient à celui qui contrôle la jeunesse"
• L'antisémitisme nazi et la "Solution finale"
• Après le nazisme. Traces et débats contemporains
• Le testament des monstres de béton
• Vivons-nous un retour des années 1930 ?
• Actualités de l'Antiquité : la Grèce était-elle blanche ?
• Faut-il rééditer Mein Kampf ?
• Le nazisme se construit largement en dehors de Mein Kampf
• Peut-on représenter la Shoah ? Sur le film Le Fils de Saül
• Historien ou apologète ? Le cas Nolte
• Du danger de l'anachronisme : le jeune Günter Grass fut-il "nazi" ?
• Après le nazisme : temporalité du chercheur, historicité de la recherche
• Le national-socialisme face au vertige de la liberté.

"Des millions de pièces d'archives, de photos et de films, des myriades de témoignages et de récits, d'innombrables traces matérielles, tout cela fait assurément du nazisme (1933-1945) la séquence historique la mieux documentée qui soit. Et pourtant la radicalité du mal qu'il représente, le nombre insensé de ses victimes et la violence hors norme de ses bourreaux interrogent sans fin voire engendrent une forme de scepticisme. Comment les nazis se sont-ils persuadés que la vie sociale et politique reposait sur la "biologie" ? Comment les barrières mentales ont-elles si facilement et si rapidement sauté? Comment l'antijudaïsme ancien s'est-il mué en Allemagne en un antisémitisme exterminateur ? Comment les élucubrations d'historiens égarés sur la place supposée des Germains dans l'Antiquité ont-elles rencontré tant d'écho ? Comment les meilleurs juristes en sont-ils venus à récuser la morale et le droit communs ? En somme, par quelle "révolution culturelle" des hommes ordinaires sont-ils devenus des barbares ? Appuyé sur une oeuvre d'érudition considérable, le grand spécialiste qu'est Johann Chapoutot multiplie dans cet ouvrage les approches et les éclairages, quitte à y revenir à plusieurs reprises, pour mieux cerner le phénomène et ses incarnations : les conférences publiques et les interventions dans les médias lui permettent de rester au plus près des questions que se pose encore et encore le public. Les réponses y gagnent en clarté et en évidence."--Page 4 of cover.