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Overbrook Foundation advanced immediately to Shirer $ 5,000 ($ 52,500 in 2024 dollars) and promised another $ 5,000 six months later, enabling Shirer to finish his monumental book. In the third volume of his autobiography, Shirer wrote: "This saved my life and my book . . . and I settled back
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as an ideology that was internationally fashionable in the 1930s. The author summarised his perspective: "he course of German history ... made blind obedience to temporal rulers the highest virtue of
Germanic man, and put a premium on servility." This
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concluded in a review that the book was "not sufficiently scholarly nor sufficiently well written to satisfy more academic demands... It is too long and cumbersome... Mr Shirer, has, however compiled a manual... which will certainly prove useful."
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or "Luther to Hitler" thesis. In West
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threatened to cancel the contract several times; each time Barnes would win a reprieve for Shirer. The book took more than five years to write, and Shirer ran out of money long before it was completed.
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in both the United States and Europe, and a critical success outside
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praised it as "a splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions." The book sold well in
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