The Hitler of History by Lukacs, John - 1997

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997. Hardbound . 1st Edition, so stated. BINDING/CONDITION: light rust boards with black at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The publisher's blurb reads: ''In this strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers. Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers -- rather than Hitler himself -- the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history.'' 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 279 pages. Bibliographical note, index.