RaveThe New York Review of BooksIf you’re seeking an understanding of the ease with which anyone can be brought, step by small step, to sell her soul to fascism, you must read this book ... The Director is far timelier now than when it was first published in 2023 ... Shines a light on a few extraordinary people and reveals their behavior during the Third Reich to be painfully ordinary ... The author’s Menschenkenntnis is on full display as he documents the little compromises that led millions of people to nod to fascism ... Nothing I’ve ever read conveys so well how people in Nazi Germany got on with their lives ... Kehlmann’s stunning tale of what failure looks like, is a call to strengthen our spines.
Seyward Darby
RaveThe New York Times Book Review... the superbly written Sisters in Hate...undermines many common assumptions about the far right ... While ruthless in her condemnation of racist ideology, she suggests how that ideology becomes inseparable from a person’s sense of herself, and presents a strong case that comprehending this is crucial if we are to battle white supremacy. Her focus on the lives of three very different women makes her book as readable as a good novel; skillfully combined with history and analysis, her subjects’ stories provide a better picture of the forces driving white backlash than several of the best sellers that attempted to do so in the wake of Trump’s election ... Darby draws on familiar studies in behavioral science that show the importance of repetition ... Darby writes that her years spent studying white nationalism have inclined her to pessimism, but her book ends on a hopeful note.
