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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
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Product Description The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year . Choice Outstanding title. Winner of Phi Beta Kappa's 2012 Christian Gauss Book Award. "A model of popular intellectual history. . . . In every way, A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement."--Washington Post When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as "a bible" and vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired--and polarized--readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania, revealing how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. 14 illustrations Review A dramatic detective story. " Clever, learned. . . . [Krebs] synthesizes a great deal of classical scholarship and intellectual history into a concise, accessible story. " Fascinating. . . . [Krebs] has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. " It is an extraordinary tale, and Mr. Krebs . . . tells it with great verve and charm. " A dramatic detective story. A fascinating story of how a book could be used and especially abused over two thousand years, as enemies saw it aspresenting Germans as brutish and barbarian, while German nationalisticpride extracted a quite different message of a nation that was simple, virtuous, and pure.... beautifully told byChristopher Krebs.--Christopher Pelling, editor of "Greek Tragedy and the Historian" A most exciting book! In Krebs hands, the story of the Germania manuscript becomes part thriller, part detective story.... A must-read for anyone interested in the pernicious power of the ideas of antiquity and a timely reminder of the responsibilities placed on readers as well as writers.--Tim Rood, University of Oxford, author of "American Anabasis" A razor-sharp, eminently readable reminder of the potency of bad ideas. Christopher Krebs shows how intellectuals through the ages used and abused a Latin classic, Tacitus's Germania, and tells the unnerving story of its final transformation into a Nazi 'bible'. Fascinating stuff.--Anthony Everitt, author of "Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome" About the Author Christopher B. Krebs, a classics professor at Stanford University, has published widely on the Roman historians and their afterlives.
