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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to Third Reich

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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to Third Reich
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to Third Reich

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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to Third Reich

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"In every way,
A Most Dangerous Book
is a most brilliant achievement." —Michael Dirda,
Washington Post
When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the
Germania
, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as “a bible” and vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the
inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Stanford University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the
, revealing how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world.

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