Chad_10_I

I have to give Simmons credit for invoking Hitler in Chapter 10. So far we have been mostly softballed with stories about faceless characters, like the proverbial stonecutter at the beginning of this chapter.

By seriously studying a historical figure, Simmons shows us she too is serious, and not afraid to consider a topic that makes people bristle.

If I am to believe what I read here, Hitler was a masterful storyteller. He would have to have been, to incite a country to such violence.

If nothing else, he is a figure from our age who can remind us how story has, in ancient times, moved empires. Think of Caesar, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, for example.