{"id":708,"date":"2004-04-29T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2004-04-29T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T15:38:00","slug":"708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BOOK RECOMMENDATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miltsfile.blogspot.com\/\">Milt Rosenberg <\/a>has pointed on his blog to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showrev.cgi?path=305351058124123\">H-Net book review <\/a>of Micheal Burleigh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/080909326X\/qid=1083253544\/sr=1-5\/ref=sr_1_5\/002-9229240-0490469?v=glance&#038;s=books\">The Third Reich: A New History<\/a> &#8211; a book I&#8217;m about half finished reading. I too recommend that you read the review (as well as the book) but here&#8217;s my take thus far on Burleigh. It&#8217;s excellent &#8211; to sum it up, even more than Ian Kershaw, Burleigh demystifies the glamor of evil that enshrouds Nazi Germany as a historical subject. His thesis meshes nicely with that of Paul Berman&#8217;s analysis of Islamism as a phenomena deeply influenced by 20th century totalitarianism in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393057755\/qid=1083253888\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-9229240-0490469?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Terror and Liberalism<\/a>. &#8220;Political Religion &#8221; appears to be an analytical trend these days.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speaking of which&#8230;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jeff at Caerdroia has an interesting essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caerdroia.org\/blog\/archives\/000929.html\">&#8221; A Broader Jihad &#8221; <\/a>on the congruent nihilism of various totalitarian philosophies and Islamism posted today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK RECOMMENDATION Milt Rosenberg has pointed on his blog to an H-Net book review of Micheal Burleigh&#8217;s The Third Reich: A New History &#8211; a book I&#8217;m about half finished reading. I too recommend that you read the review (as well as the book) but here&#8217;s my take thus far on Burleigh. It&#8217;s excellent &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}