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. > HITLER HUBRIS 1889-1936 KERSHAW IAN ISBN 0-393-04671-0 $35.00 "An absolutely outstanding piece of work (that] will become the standa—rd Hitler biog- raphy for the nextgeneration It shows a total command of the issues involved in writing a biography of Hitler and its judg- ments are invariably shrewd and balanced." —Jeremy Noakes, UniversityofExeter HITLER 1889-1936: HUBRIS BY THE SAME AUTHOR 'The Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-45 The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems andPerspectives ofInterpretation Edited: Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail? Hitler: A Profile in Power Edited, with Moshe Lewin: Stalinism andNazism: Dictatorships in Comparison HITLER 1889-1936: HUBRIS Ian Kershaw W.W. Norton & Company NEWYORK LONDON • —— Copyright© 1998 byIan Kershaw FirstAmericanedition 1999 Allrights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica ExcerptsfromMeinKampfbyAdolfHitler. Copyright© 1939, 1943 byHoughton Mifflin Company. ReprintedbypermissionofHoughton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Forinformationaboutpermissionto reproduce selections fromthisbook,writeto Permissions,W.W.Norton& Company,Inc., 500 FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY 10110. LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Kershaw,Ian. Hitler, 1889-1936 : hubris/Ian Kershaw. —1stAmericaned. p. cm. Includesbibliographical references andindex. ISBN0-393-04671-0 1. Hider,A—dolf, 1889-1945. 2. Hitler,Adolf, 1889-1945—Childhoo—dandyouth. 3. Germany Politics an—dgovernment—1918-1933—. 4. Heads ofstate Germany Biography. 5. Germany Politics andgover—nment 1933-1945. 6. Antisemitism Austria. 7. Antisemitism Germany. I.Tide. DD247.H5K462 1999 943.086'092—dc21 [B] 98-29569 CIP W.W.Norton& Company,Inc., 500 FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY 10110 http://www.wwnorton.com WW. Norton & CompanyLtd., 10 Coptic Street,London CW1A 1PU 1234567890 IbS&ll CONTENTS List ofIllustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Reflecting on Hitler xix i Fantasy and Failure i 2 Drop-out 27 3 Elation and Embitterment 71 4 Discovering a Talent 107 5 The Beerhall Agitator 129 6 The 'Drummer' 167 7 Emergence of the Leader 221 8 Mastery over the Movement 255 9 Breakthrough 313 10 Levered into Power 377 11 The Making of the Dictator 429 12 Securing Total Power 497 13 Working Towards the Fiihrer 527 (Glossary ofAbbreviations 592 Notes 597 List ofWorks Cited 767 Index 799
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