{"product_id":"9780307377296","title":"Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniquely comprehensive and compelling: an historian's effort to explore the inexplicable amalgam of circumstances and events that transformed a lost individual into one of the most famous\/infamous historical figures of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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, 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 the formation of a personality whose determination and vision would at the outset convince a small group of like-minded political and social outcasts and would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012158636272,"sku":"9780307377296","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307377296_p0.jpg?v=1763671884","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307377296","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}