This book probes the background of the ultimately unexplainable evil of our century, the deliberate and unprovoked murder of millions of European Jews--and goes on to explore German reactions to that evil. Depicting the emergence in Weimar Germany of a new type of extreme anti-Semite, of which Hitler was the paramount example, Sarah Gordon discusses a number of related questions about the role of anti-Semitism in the rise of the Nazis and draws on hitherto unexamined Gestapo files, new data on court sentences, and a variety of other sources to describe the tiny numbers of courageous...

Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O Connor s writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background.

"Flannery O Connor: The Obedient Imagination" shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O Connor s Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class...

Flannery O Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O Connor s fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O Connor s readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked--places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction.

The guide describes such places as O Connor s childhood home in Savannah; the Governor s Mansion, Cline House, and Central State Hospital in Milledgeville; and the family farm,...