Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions Into the Abyss (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307389589)

At the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths--certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees's social, psychological, and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans.

(With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations)

Author: Laurence Rees
ISBN-10: 0307389588
ISBN-13: 9780307389589
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.22w x 0.76d