Hardcover Nonfiction

by Nora Wain · Little, Brown

by Pierre van Paassen · Hillman-Curl

by Adolph Hitler · editions have been published by Reynal & Hitchcock and by Stackpole

by Edna Ferber · Doubleday, Doran

Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's stunning first autobiography, in which she recounts her small-town Midwestern childhood and rise to literary fame, all amidst the backdrop of America around the turn of the 20th century. A modest girl growing up one of the only Jewish children in her Midwestern town, Edna Ferber started overcoming the odds at a young age. Pursuing work at the local newspaper as an innocent 17-year-old, she was assigned the night court shift, reporting on drugs and violence, and gradually finding her own voice in standing up to what she witnessed. As she continued to pursue writing, she recalls the various ways in which she found inspiration, leading her to publish her first books and later, So Big, which won a Pulitzer Prize and catapulted her to fame. Ferber's incredible experiences all occur during a time of pre-WWII rising anti-Semitism and the gaining power of Hitler in Europe, and the various historical and political tensions of the time color the fascinating events of her life.

by G. E. R. Gedye · Harper

by Martha Dodd · Harcourt, Brace

In this memoir, the daughter of U.S. ambassador William Dodd describes life in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1937 through the eyes of an American socialite, who nevertheless closely observes the Nazi leadership and makes clear that early plans for the Holocaust were an open secret in Berlin in the run-up to World War II.