The reviewer who tried to trump all Hitler comparisons | Emma Brockes

Mendacious, half-insane, an egomaniac, a demagogue – that’s what they said about the Nazi leader in the 1930s, before his election. Remind you of anyone?Book reviews tend to make news only if they are particularly savage or concern a hotly anticipated book. So Hitler, by Volker Ullrich – the umpteenth biography of the dictator, translated from the German and published in America this month – would seem an unlikely candidate. Last week, however, Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ chief book critic, did something extraordinary: without ever making it explicit, she wrote an entire review about something, or rather someone, else.From the opening paragraph – in which Kakutani cites an eminent magazine editor in 1930 describing Hitler as a “half-insane rascal”, a “pathetic dunderhead”, a “nowhere fool” and a “big mouth” – one can start to guess the direction she’s looking in. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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