{"id":1054,"date":"2011-10-18T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:55:11","slug":"in-the-garden-of-beasts-love-terror-and-an-american-family-in-hitlers-berlin-by-erik-larson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler&#8217;s Berlin by Erik Larson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1059 size-medium\" title=\"In the Garden of Beasts\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/In-the-Garden-of-Beasts1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/In-the-Garden-of-Beasts1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/In-the-Garden-of-Beasts1.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0is 1933, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to Germany remains empty as the President battles with the Great Depression.\u00a0 Quiet, \u00a0scholarly Chicago history professor William E. Dodd&#8217;s name\u00a0is suggested\u00a0as a candidate\u00a0to the President, and he and his family find themselves in Berlin as Adolf Hitler is gaining popularity.\u00a0 Dodd&#8217;s determination to maintain communication between his embassy and the Nazis is challenged daily by\u00a0the Anti-Semitism of\u00a0 German leaders and\u00a0 pressures from American Jewish groups.\u00a0While he walks a diplomatic tightrope, his beautiful and effervescent daughter engages in a lively social life, becoming close to Nazis and Socialists alike, complicating the picture.\u00a0 This is an incredible and readable\u00a0account of the years before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00a0is 1933, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to Germany remains empty as the President battles with the Great Depression.\u00a0 Quiet, \u00a0scholarly Chicago history professor William E. Dodd&#8217;s name\u00a0is suggested\u00a0as a candidate\u00a0to the President, and he and his family find themselves in Berlin as Adolf Hitler is gaining popularity.\u00a0 Dodd&#8217;s determination to maintain communication between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler&#8217;s Berlin by Erik Larson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}