Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, born 1959, grew up in the Boston area. He attended Harvard University where he received a BA in social studies and a masters and doctorate in political science. He subsequently was a political science professor at Harvard for many years, teaching courses on a range of subjects, including European politics, democracy, and genocide. In 1996 he published "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," which led to more prolonged and heated discussion around the world than just about any book in memory. It was an international bestseller that instantly