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An innovative and superb probe into organized racism. Further, he argues that the germans could not foresee the horrors of the war and the holocaust between 1925 and 1933. University of utah, salt lake city, assistant professor, 198187, associate professor of sociology, 198788. He did his undergraduate work at the univer pitirim a. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions.
Now senior research fellow at harvard university, he lives in cambridge, ma, with his wife, doreen beinart. Books brustein has published widely in the areas of political extremism and ethnicreligiousracial prejudice. First up is robert brustein on joseph hellers catch 22, a. What are good books to know about the inside of nazi germany. Books the socialism of fools leftist origins of modern antisemitism cambridge and new york. William brustein why did millions of apparently sane, rational germans support the nazi party between 1925 and 1933. Brustein is professor of sociology, political science, and history and the director of the university center for international studies at the university of pittsburgh. The social origins of the nazi party, 19251933 was the winner of the 1997 james s.