Book · 1974 · History
The Politics of Cultural Despair
A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
Why people recommend it
The Politics of Cultural Despair by Fritz R. Stern is a historical study examining the intellectual and cultural roots of Nazism in 19th-century Germany. John Gans recommended the book on The Ezra Klein Show during the episode From David Duke to Donald Trump: The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’ in March 2024. Gans described it as a wonderful book in which the author discusses the specific types of people in Germany who formulated the ideological underpinnings that eventually led to Nazism.
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“and the third book I would recommend is the politics of cultural despair by Fritz Stern where he talks about the kinds of people in Germany who prior in the 19th century kind of created the ideological underpinnings for what became Nazism and it's a wonderful book”