amb3rlina 's review for:

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

3.0

informative medium-paced

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Interesting, but too much of the social ins and outs for my taste. I don't personally care who to he daughter of the American ambassador dated.

I'm not going to compare Trump to Hitler, but the similarities between the *people* watching fascism rise are definitely there. People want things to be okay and will do some pretty impressive mental calisthenics to explain bad things away so they can just live their lives.