Kurt Vonnegut’s Muse,

discover Europe just before the breakup of the old civilization amid dictatorship and world war.

Long since retired from active journalism, Shirer is most celebrated nowadays for his sprawling histories, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and The Collapse of the Third Republic. Well, they are good books. But my hunch is that his memoirs-in-progress may prove to be as rich and as significant as anything he has written. The first volume, carrying the author just past his 26th birthday, is a considerable start.

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discover Europe just before the breakup of the old civilization amid dictatorship and world war.

Long since retired from active journalism, Shirer is most celebrated nowadays for his sprawling histories, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and The Collapse of the Third Republic. Well, they are good books. But my hunch is that his memoirs-in-progress may prove to be as rich and as significant as anything he has written. The first volume, carrying the author just past his 26th birthday, is a considerable start.