![]() ![]() Franklin Roosevelt, then in his second year in office, was meanwhile having trouble filling the ambassadorship in Berlin, where the paramilitary forces of Hitler’s newly installed regime were in the habit of beating up Americans-and, it seems, American doctors in particular, one for the offense of not giving the Nazi salute when an SS parade passed by. ![]() Dodd, the unlikely hero of the piece, was a historian at the University of Chicago in the early 1930s, tenured and unhappy, increasingly convinced that he was cut out for greater things than proctoring exams. A sometimes improbable but nevertheless true tale of diplomacy and intrigue by bestselling author Larson ( Thunderstruck, 2006, etc.). ![]()
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