Book Discussion: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Program Type:

Book Discussion

Age Group:

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

Join us for a discussion of Erik Larson's bestselling novel In Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. 

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when professor William Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany.  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. But 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 of excitement and intrigue and, ultimately, horror.

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