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Feb. 7: Alumni Book Club Meeting Features Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
February 7, 2012
Date: Tuesday, February 7
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: If you would like to RSVP, please email sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
Join the Marymount Manhattan College Alumni Book Club for a discussion of Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
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