The Shakespeare Wars

New York Times: "Ron Rosenbaum’s impressive book “Explaining Hitler” (1998) was the very model of cultural history-writing at its most insightful and provocative. By re-examining a spectrum of scholarly writings about the Nazi leader, Mr. Rosenbaum showed how historians, philosophers and psychologists have projected their own agendas and preconceptions onto their portraits of Hitler, and in doing so he was able to examine the consequences that recent developments in academic thinking — most notably, relativism, Freudianism and neo-historicism — have had for our thinking about evil, free will, personal responsibility and the clanking machinery of history."