The Rise of Hitler

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Adam Kirsch discusses Volker Ullrich's new biography of Hitler; Billy Collins talks about his latest collection of poems; and iO Tillett Wright on his new memoir, "Darling Days."

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0:00.0	What do we know about Hitler the man as opposed to Hitler the myth?
0:06.2	Our viewer Adam Kirsch will be here to talk about a new biography, Hitler the Ascent.
0:10.6	Hitler was not a supernatural creature.
0:13.4	He was a human being with some great talents and other weaknesses and things that would
0:18.7	make him comprehensible.
0:20.0	Who better to read a poem by Billy Collins than Billy Collins himself?
0:24.2	I like a cat wearing a chappow or a trillbee, little jack hornor sitting on a sofa.
0:30.7	He's here to talk about his latest collection, The Rain and Portugal.
0:34.2	Old men who are not from Nantucket and how life can seem almost unreal when you are gently
0:40.0	rowing about down his dream.
0:42.1	Can being transgender actually be an anchor for a child growing up in an otherwise unstable
0:47.0	environment?
0:48.4	With our activist and TV host Io Tillet Wright explores this in his new memoir, Darling
0:53.8	Days.
0:54.8	Maybe the way to have a normal life is to just fit in.
0:57.4	I tried to live as a girl for a while and it took me until three years ago at 28 to figure
1:02.7	out that I think I had it right when I was a kid.
1:06.0	Also, literary news and what we and other people are reading.
1:09.9	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
1:11.7	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:18.4	Adolf Hitler honed his own image with the utmost care.
1:22.0	Before his suicide in 1945, he ordered his private papers to be burned.
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