"Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power”

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"Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power”

Timothy Wernig Ryback ,
Director, Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague
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Timothy Wernig Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He previously served as the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature at Harvard University. Ryback has a doctorate from Harvard.[1]
Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.[1] He is also author of Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, published in 2008, which has appeared in more than 25 editions around the world. His book, The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau was a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. Ryback is also author of Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published in 1989. He has appeared in numerous television documentaries.
His 2024 book, Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power, explores the final days of the Weimar Republic and its transformation into Nazi Germany.[2] In The New Yorker review, Adam Gopnik wrote:
[T]he historian Timothy W. Ryback’s choice to make his new book, Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (Knopf), an aggressively specific chronicle of a single year, 1932, seems a wise, even an inspired one. Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following

PUBLICATIONS

• (2024). Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power. New York: Knopf.
• (2014). Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice. New York: Knopf.
• (2008). Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life. New York: Knopf.
• (1999). The Last Survivor: In Search of Martin Zaidenstadt. New York: Pantheon.
• (1990). Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. New York: Oxford University Press.