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“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
From the Hardcover edition.
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
From the Hardcover edition.
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This excellent book tells the story of William Dodd- F.D.R.'s first ambassador to Nazi Germany shortly after the Nazi's came to power.The main characters in the book are Dodd and his daughter Martha who lives life to it's fullest.(She is friends with many leading lights including Carl Sandburg and Thornton Wilder.One of her lovers was Rudolf Diels an early leader of the Gestapo) Dodd was not the Presidents first choice- he was not even his second- Dodd's enemies called him "Telephone book Dodd" insinuating that F.DR. wanted another Dodd for the job but called William by accident. F.D.R. wants Dodd to represent American democratic values while at the same time getting loans owed by Germany to American bankers. He is also given the charge of dealing with stories of German abuses toward their Jewish population.This was a delicate issue for the U.S. Department of State was riddled with anti-semitism and the American public was not receptive toward immigrants during the Great Depression. Also isolationist sentiment was running high.Dodd gained his PhD in Germany and at first he was resistant to stories of rising German brutality. As he tours the nation, his opinions change as hears accounts of anti- semitism, abuses against dissidents and attacks on Americans.I had never heard of Americans being attacked on street corners by S.A. thugs who were incensed when they did not raise their arms in the Heil salute.Dodd was to become a vocal opponent of the regime.The author captures the spread of Nazi power over the nation from tales of stunned intellectuals who moderate their views on the Nazi's as not to offend them to a Nazi bigwig who offers a treat to a party guest who is shocked to see the candy engraved with the swastika.Meanwhile in the U.S.-Dodd has enemies in the State Department who feel his views on Germany are too harsh and are exaggerated.The main years of the narrative are 1933-1934 with an emphasis on what will be known as the Night of the Long Knives as the Third Reich began to show it's true intentions. The author captures the time period. You feel as if you are in the room with the characters. I was sad when this book ended.This first rate piece of historical writing takes us back to Germany as it began it's decent into brutality and the author reminds us that the Nazis were evil from the start- although not everyone was ready to see it.
Just finished reading In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin an excellent book on pre-WW2 Gremany. However, 1/4 of this book comprises highly detailed endnotes.
And there are no in-text links to the endnotes. The endnote links back to the book page, but this is hardly efficient or acceptable for a non-fiction work heavily dependent on third-party sources.
Major fail.
And there are no in-text links to the endnotes. The endnote links back to the book page, but this is hardly efficient or acceptable for a non-fiction work heavily dependent on third-party sources.
Major fail.
a haunting sorrowful tale of impending disaster
Erik Larson has created a tale of flawed people who witness one of the most tragic periods of human history. Their limitations make the story so much more real and believeable.
The class conscious William Dodd without the social connections or money to live the expected lifestyle of American ambassador. His family including a promiscuous daughter who uses her family's position to seduce very different people in a situation to which she remained pitifully naive.
The 1930s American State Department with their biases and prejudices of the time including anti-semitism and racism in America.
The collective denial that the worst could actually happen. It is a powerful and eye opening read that is haunting.
It is solely from the American prespective with little discussion of France and England's part during the times. The business interests of America and their involvement in Germany is left out completely.
Those were my only questions for Erik.
Recommend without reservation.
The class conscious William Dodd without the social connections or money to live the expected lifestyle of American ambassador. His family including a promiscuous daughter who uses her family's position to seduce very different people in a situation to which she remained pitifully naive.
The 1930s American State Department with their biases and prejudices of the time including anti-semitism and racism in America.
The collective denial that the worst could actually happen. It is a powerful and eye opening read that is haunting.
It is solely from the American prespective with little discussion of France and England's part during the times. The business interests of America and their involvement in Germany is left out completely.
Those were my only questions for Erik.
Recommend without reservation.
another entertaining larson read
yet another spectacular book by Mr. Larson. Up to the level of Devil in the White City. His ability to transform history into a gripping fiction-like read is a gfit. As a history buff, it is a breath of fresh air to be able to read history book that are not just stuffed with facts. This book has a narrative quality.
This book is haunting proof that people will do anything not to see what they don't want to see. In this case, an idealistic, Jeffersonian college professor is appointed American ambassador to Berlin in the early 1930s. His truthfulness and statesmanship are admirable, and he truly believes that, if people entirely understood the Great War, there would be no more wars on earth. But he is dealing with the Third Reich, which doesn't ascribe to his high ideals, all the while assuring him that it does.
The ambassador first naively believes that the Nazis will collapse before they take over the entire German government, and many intelligent observers agree with him. He doesn't realize, however, that he is dealing with a regime that is based on sociopathy, lies, brute force and grade-school fictions that it can go back and create an Aryan Eden by demonizing, dispossessing, and ultimately destroying European Jewry.
The ambassador slowly realizes the enormity of what is happening around him as German government assurances predictably become lies. He tries to stand up to the Germans, giving provocative speeches, and he tries to raise some alarm back home about the imminent threat that the Nazis constitute to the survival of human culture. Americans, however, are much given to isolationist principles and don't really care that much about what happens to the Jews.
The book becomes a meticulously researched chronicle of how the world, much too late, realized that the Nazis weren't going to go away and things would just get worse, as they did.
It's an absorbing book that I read in a day and a half of fascinated frustration, realizing that WWII could have been avoided.
Ironic moments are also provided by the ambassador's daughter, who rarely meets anyone in Berlin that she doesn't want to bed. She goes from being an enthusiastic Nazi supporter to being an enthusiastic communist supporter to being a person disappointed in all politics and unwelcome for the rest of her life anywhere but in Prague. There are no awful accounts of Nazi atrocities that would make you want to put the book down.
I would HIGHLY recommend this book. It recreates the early Nazi years with chilling reality.
The ambassador first naively believes that the Nazis will collapse before they take over the entire German government, and many intelligent observers agree with him. He doesn't realize, however, that he is dealing with a regime that is based on sociopathy, lies, brute force and grade-school fictions that it can go back and create an Aryan Eden by demonizing, dispossessing, and ultimately destroying European Jewry.
The ambassador slowly realizes the enormity of what is happening around him as German government assurances predictably become lies. He tries to stand up to the Germans, giving provocative speeches, and he tries to raise some alarm back home about the imminent threat that the Nazis constitute to the survival of human culture. Americans, however, are much given to isolationist principles and don't really care that much about what happens to the Jews.
The book becomes a meticulously researched chronicle of how the world, much too late, realized that the Nazis weren't going to go away and things would just get worse, as they did.
It's an absorbing book that I read in a day and a half of fascinated frustration, realizing that WWII could have been avoided.
Ironic moments are also provided by the ambassador's daughter, who rarely meets anyone in Berlin that she doesn't want to bed. She goes from being an enthusiastic Nazi supporter to being an enthusiastic communist supporter to being a person disappointed in all politics and unwelcome for the rest of her life anywhere but in Prague. There are no awful accounts of Nazi atrocities that would make you want to put the book down.
I would HIGHLY recommend this book. It recreates the early Nazi years with chilling reality.
A very informative book that feels like a summer beach read! Larson has a unique way of focusing in on minor characters of history and using them to tell a big story. Loved it!
In the Garden of Beasts is a horrific account of Hitler's Berlin in the Valley of 1930's terror
Erik Larson the Seattle based author of such bestsellers as "The Devil in the White City" and Thunderstruck" is once again riding the wave of literay popularity. His new book "In the Garden of Beasts" is a vivid account of life in Berlin during the ascendancy of Adoll Hitler and his murderous Nazi goverment.
The story deals with the family of U.S. Ambassador William Dodd who served in Berlin from 1933 through 1937. Dodd had a Ph.D
from the University of Leipzig. He was a distinguished professor of history at the University of Chicago at the time FDR appointed him to the difficult post. Dodd was a straightlaced North Carolinian who had bee a close friend of Woodrow Wilson and an author bent on completing his magnus opus "The Old South." (never completed). The ambassador was accompanied to Berlin by his wife Mattie and their two adult children Bill and Martha. Bill worked on a doctorate at the University of Berlin and is a minor character in the book. Daughter Martha was fleeing from a failed marriage to a wealthy banker George Bassett. He visited her in Berlin seeking to revive Martha's love but was unable to do so. Martha was something of a Scarlet O'Hara. A list of her prominent lovers include such luminaries as Thomas Wolfe, the novelist, Carl Sandburg the poet and an Italian prince. She also was romantically linked to Rudolf Diehls the notorious had of the Gestapo and Ernst Udet a World War I German fighter ace. Her longest affair was with a man named Boris who was a Soviet agent (Boris would later be executed in Moscow by Stalin). Martha would later wed Alfred Stern a New York liberal. Stern was rich due in part to his divorce settlement form an heiress of the Sears and Roebuck empire. The couple got into trouble on tax issues and their affiliation with the Communist Party. Martha had visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s, The Sterns fled the United States living for many years in Prague. Martha died in exile in 1990. Her father died in 1940 following her mother's death in 1938. A sad ending for a talented and prominent family.
The book is divided into 55 brief chapters. The account is nonfictional but reads like a page turning fictional account. Unfortunately the evil in Germany was all too real. Many of the Dodds friends were executed by the Nazis; they saw Jewish persecution through their eyewitness testimony and were in the Reich durng the night of Long Knives on June 30, 1934. On that horrible Friday Hitler had Ernst Rohm head of the SA murdered as well as several leading figures in German political and intellectual life. Later would come Kirstallnacht and all the horrors of World War II and the holocaust. The most vivid chapters involve the Dodds meeting of Hitler and the trip to Goering's Karinhall estate. This is a chilling account of a democratic and brave man Charles Dodd who told the truth about the Nazi evil. Many of the wealthy New England Ivy Leaguers in the United States States Department refused to heed his warnings!
Erik Larson will take you to Berlin with all of its sights, smells, horrors and sorrows during one of the darkest times in human history. The "Tiergarden Park' means in German "The garden of beasts" but in a more profound sense is allusive of the repulsive monster Hitler and his horrible henchmen! This is a brilliant and fascinating book!
The story deals with the family of U.S. Ambassador William Dodd who served in Berlin from 1933 through 1937. Dodd had a Ph.D
from the University of Leipzig. He was a distinguished professor of history at the University of Chicago at the time FDR appointed him to the difficult post. Dodd was a straightlaced North Carolinian who had bee a close friend of Woodrow Wilson and an author bent on completing his magnus opus "The Old South." (never completed). The ambassador was accompanied to Berlin by his wife Mattie and their two adult children Bill and Martha. Bill worked on a doctorate at the University of Berlin and is a minor character in the book. Daughter Martha was fleeing from a failed marriage to a wealthy banker George Bassett. He visited her in Berlin seeking to revive Martha's love but was unable to do so. Martha was something of a Scarlet O'Hara. A list of her prominent lovers include such luminaries as Thomas Wolfe, the novelist, Carl Sandburg the poet and an Italian prince. She also was romantically linked to Rudolf Diehls the notorious had of the Gestapo and Ernst Udet a World War I German fighter ace. Her longest affair was with a man named Boris who was a Soviet agent (Boris would later be executed in Moscow by Stalin). Martha would later wed Alfred Stern a New York liberal. Stern was rich due in part to his divorce settlement form an heiress of the Sears and Roebuck empire. The couple got into trouble on tax issues and their affiliation with the Communist Party. Martha had visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s, The Sterns fled the United States living for many years in Prague. Martha died in exile in 1990. Her father died in 1940 following her mother's death in 1938. A sad ending for a talented and prominent family.
The book is divided into 55 brief chapters. The account is nonfictional but reads like a page turning fictional account. Unfortunately the evil in Germany was all too real. Many of the Dodds friends were executed by the Nazis; they saw Jewish persecution through their eyewitness testimony and were in the Reich durng the night of Long Knives on June 30, 1934. On that horrible Friday Hitler had Ernst Rohm head of the SA murdered as well as several leading figures in German political and intellectual life. Later would come Kirstallnacht and all the horrors of World War II and the holocaust. The most vivid chapters involve the Dodds meeting of Hitler and the trip to Goering's Karinhall estate. This is a chilling account of a democratic and brave man Charles Dodd who told the truth about the Nazi evil. Many of the wealthy New England Ivy Leaguers in the United States States Department refused to heed his warnings!
Erik Larson will take you to Berlin with all of its sights, smells, horrors and sorrows during one of the darkest times in human history. The "Tiergarden Park' means in German "The garden of beasts" but in a more profound sense is allusive of the repulsive monster Hitler and his horrible henchmen! This is a brilliant and fascinating book!
I always begin one of Erik Larson's books with the fear that I won't be able to put it down. I know I'll be completely lost in the book, and because of that, the experience will be over too quickly, and I will be left with longing, and the knowledge that I could have remained in his unique vision and take on history for days. These books are that good. As he did with Chicago during the world's fair in The Devil and the White City, Larson portrays the place with extraordinary vividness: in this case, it's the particular natural beauty of Berlin the year after Hitler ascended to power. It's a beauty that, juxtaposed with the increasing terror, becomes uncanny in its horror. There are facts about the lead-in to WWII that I didn't know before reading this book, but what I came away with was an increased understanding of the rock concert/championship game hysteria of those early days, a madness of crowds that blinded some, for a short time, to the psychopathology of Hitler and his gang. Seeing both the joy and sudden dawning realization of the horror through the eyes of a newly-arrived 24 year old American girl, herself a bit of a narcissist, was a brilliant stroke.
I recommend this book highly. Why four stars and not five? I think The Devil and the White City was a better book, even if the historical sweep was not quite as large. The books are similar structurally, and perhaps when the devil is Hitler and the white city is Berlin and the lost girl is an ambassador's daughter you need a larger book. As I said, I think most readers wouldn't mind living in Larson's words much longer. Even the notes at the end are good! Still, In the Garden of Beasts is a great read. But The Devil and the White City was a revelation.
I recommend this book highly. Why four stars and not five? I think The Devil and the White City was a better book, even if the historical sweep was not quite as large. The books are similar structurally, and perhaps when the devil is Hitler and the white city is Berlin and the lost girl is an ambassador's daughter you need a larger book. As I said, I think most readers wouldn't mind living in Larson's words much longer. Even the notes at the end are good! Still, In the Garden of Beasts is a great read. But The Devil and the White City was a revelation.
A different perspective of pre-war Germany
Erik Larson writes non-fiction that reads like fiction like no other. This is another successful page turner from Erik Larson. I have read other WWII period books, but this book is unique in that it really paints the picture of what it was like to live in pre-war Germany, culture and all. I found this a valuable insight into what it was like to live in diplomatic circles in pre-war Europe. This is a book definitely worth reading on either a historical level or just for entertainment value.
As in "The Devil in the White City", Larson paints a vivid picture: Berlin during the Third Reich and the historic individuals therein come to life with both beauty and flaws. While the firsthand accounts of meetings with the likes of FDR or Hitler are certainly fascinating, what stands out to me is how moral integrity can transcend time and circumstances.
In a time when many foreigners did not believe the stories of persecution or even sympathized with Germany's so-called "Jewish problem", the status quo of 1933 was disturbing. I find it hopeful, then, that a sharp, educated man was able to develop and stand by an unpopular opinion -- one for which history will credit him. When the influential and powerful failed to intervene with Hitler's rise, we see the decidedly different viewpoint of unpopular, old-fashioned, in-bed-by-10-PM William Dodd. Perhaps if today we had a few more philosopher kings in the model of Dodd -- true thinkers, if unwilling statesmen -- some of the world's injustices might be brought into sharper focus before we are unable to contain them.
My one complaint regards the pacing: the vast majority of the book takes place during Dodd's first year or so in Berlin. After the very protracted action of 1933 and 1934, the remaining years until his death zip by -- some are barely mentioned in as little as a paragraph. Perhaps if the title of the book had better alluded to this focus on his initial time in Berlin, the rushed latter years wouldn't have seemed so anticlimactic to me.
In a time when many foreigners did not believe the stories of persecution or even sympathized with Germany's so-called "Jewish problem", the status quo of 1933 was disturbing. I find it hopeful, then, that a sharp, educated man was able to develop and stand by an unpopular opinion -- one for which history will credit him. When the influential and powerful failed to intervene with Hitler's rise, we see the decidedly different viewpoint of unpopular, old-fashioned, in-bed-by-10-PM William Dodd. Perhaps if today we had a few more philosopher kings in the model of Dodd -- true thinkers, if unwilling statesmen -- some of the world's injustices might be brought into sharper focus before we are unable to contain them.
My one complaint regards the pacing: the vast majority of the book takes place during Dodd's first year or so in Berlin. After the very protracted action of 1933 and 1934, the remaining years until his death zip by -- some are barely mentioned in as little as a paragraph. Perhaps if the title of the book had better alluded to this focus on his initial time in Berlin, the rushed latter years wouldn't have seemed so anticlimactic to me.
Grim and noirish tale of non-fiction
After recounting the chilling murderers H.H. Holmes and Dr. Crippen, Erik Larson turns his attention to one of the most chilling regimes in history: Nazi Germany. He tells the story through the eyes of the family of forgotten Ambassador William E. Dodd, of whom his daughter, Martha Dodd, quickly made a name for herself in the highest Nazi circles.
The story begins in 1933, and the sheen of innocence which cloaks the Dodds' arrival in Berlin--and was also wrapped around the American nation--was frightening to read. Larson chooses his words carefully, drawing from the memoirs written by both Dodd and his daughter, as well as primary and secondary sources, to build a portrait of this tense and frantic period in history. The usual names trot across the pages--Hitler, Goebbels, etc.--but this is not a story about the Nazis and its leaders. It is a story about how and why most turned a blind eye to the growing horror of Nazism. In clear, sparse prose, Larson seeks to understand the motivations not solely of the powers during the 1930s, but also of the average American. The Dodds were a marvelous subject, not simply because of his Ambassadorial post, but because they were ordinary Americans caught in the maelstrom.
//In the Garden of Beasts// is enjoyable, but it is not an easy or fun read, and it forces one to reassess and hasty conclusions one could make about our 1930s counterparts.
Reviewed by Angela Tate
The story begins in 1933, and the sheen of innocence which cloaks the Dodds' arrival in Berlin--and was also wrapped around the American nation--was frightening to read. Larson chooses his words carefully, drawing from the memoirs written by both Dodd and his daughter, as well as primary and secondary sources, to build a portrait of this tense and frantic period in history. The usual names trot across the pages--Hitler, Goebbels, etc.--but this is not a story about the Nazis and its leaders. It is a story about how and why most turned a blind eye to the growing horror of Nazism. In clear, sparse prose, Larson seeks to understand the motivations not solely of the powers during the 1930s, but also of the average American. The Dodds were a marvelous subject, not simply because of his Ambassadorial post, but because they were ordinary Americans caught in the maelstrom.
//In the Garden of Beasts// is enjoyable, but it is not an easy or fun read, and it forces one to reassess and hasty conclusions one could make about our 1930s counterparts.
Reviewed by Angela Tate
As others have mentioned his other books , were wonderful... this one didn;t have the flow in the narative that it should have had... I got tired reading about Marthas, exploits, they were all the same for the four years she lived there...Its almost like the book should have titled Martha time in Berlin. I felt the book was about her not Ambas. Dodd or the war...It left me very disappointed.
Not a bad book, not a great one. The period (leading up to the Night of the Long Knives) and city (Berlin) covered are certainly interesting.
My main problem with this effort by Erik Larson is that I am unable to hold the two main characters in his book in the same admiring light as he does. I do think highly of Ambassador Dodd's firm anti-Nazi stand at a time when this was unpopular in many circles. However, from the evidence in this book, Dodd spent quite a bit of time complaining about small things at work and about his colleagues, while worrying about completing a history of the chivalrous Old South (probably not highlighting slavery) he had started years ago. He complained about rich fellow members of the State Department wasting time, but seems blind to the fact he himself should not have expected the time to finish an academic history while serving as a U.S. ambassador to a major country during very tense times.
As for his daughter, Martha, I have no sympathy. She compromised the security of the U.S. embassy by sleeping with both Nazis and Russians. She later married a rich man, was an agent for the USSR, and died in exile behind the Iron Curtain.
This is a person the author sums up as "not precisely a hero but certainly a woman of principle..."
Two recent books on Hitler's Germany I enjoyed and that might be of interest to other readers are "Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945" as edited by Oliver Lubrich and "German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler's Third Reich" by Frederic C. Tubach.
My main problem with this effort by Erik Larson is that I am unable to hold the two main characters in his book in the same admiring light as he does. I do think highly of Ambassador Dodd's firm anti-Nazi stand at a time when this was unpopular in many circles. However, from the evidence in this book, Dodd spent quite a bit of time complaining about small things at work and about his colleagues, while worrying about completing a history of the chivalrous Old South (probably not highlighting slavery) he had started years ago. He complained about rich fellow members of the State Department wasting time, but seems blind to the fact he himself should not have expected the time to finish an academic history while serving as a U.S. ambassador to a major country during very tense times.
As for his daughter, Martha, I have no sympathy. She compromised the security of the U.S. embassy by sleeping with both Nazis and Russians. She later married a rich man, was an agent for the USSR, and died in exile behind the Iron Curtain.
This is a person the author sums up as "not precisely a hero but certainly a woman of principle..."
Two recent books on Hitler's Germany I enjoyed and that might be of interest to other readers are "Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945" as edited by Oliver Lubrich and "German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler's Third Reich" by Frederic C. Tubach.
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