{"id":195175,"date":"2025-09-02T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:08:10","slug":"nonfiction-book-discussion-erik-larsons-in-the-garden-of-beasts-on-09-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195175\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction Book Discussion &#8211; Erik Larson&#8217;s &#8220;In the Garden of Beasts&#8221; on 09\/22\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nonfiction Book Discussion \u2013 Erik Larson\u2019s \u201cIn the Garden of Beasts\u201d<\/strong><br \/><strong>Date:<\/strong> 09\/22\/2025<br \/><strong>Time:<\/strong> 06:30 pm-07:30 pm<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, 201 N. Mulberry Street, Mount Vernon<br \/><strong>Organizer:<\/strong> Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County<br \/><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<br \/><strong>Contact and more info:<\/strong><br \/>mvknoxpubliclibrary@gmail.com<br \/>https:\/\/www.knox.net<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1933, William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered professor from Chicago, became America\u2019s first ambassador to Hitler\u2019s Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He took his family to Berlin.\u00a0 Initially, they were entranced by the the pomp and grandeur of the New German Reich. They witnessed firsthand the restoration of Germany to world prominence.<\/p>\n<p>Then they witnessed other things.<\/p>\n<p>Persecution. Censorship. Extreme and violent nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>But Dodd\u2019s reports were largely ignored by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<p>In his usual fashion, Erik Larsonwields a range of sources to present a complex and nuanced story of an American family in the midst of a nation that was on the verge of something grand and horrific.<\/p>\n<p>How did it happen?\u00a0 Why did so few oppose it sooner? Could such a thing ever happen again?<\/p>\n<p>Read the book.\u00a0 We should talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonfiction Book Discussion \u2013 Erik Larson\u2019s \u201cIn the Garden of Beasts\u201dDate: 09\/22\/2025Time: 06:30 pm-07:30 pmLocation: Public Library of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,41818,108694,108695,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-local-events","11":"tag-nonfiction-book-discussion-erik-larsons-in-the-garden-of-beasts","12":"tag-public-library-of-mount-vernon-and-knox-county","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115136987640956819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}