Timothy Ryback
Encyclopedia
Timothy W. Ryback is the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He was previously Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature at Harvard University
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Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly
, The New Yorker
and The New York Times
. He is also author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, published by Pantheon in 2000, a New York Times notable book for 2000. He also wrote Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2008. The book has appeared in more than two dozen editions around the world, and has been both praised for the insights it yields into Hitler's life and personality and criticized for some imprecisions (for instance in its discussion of Thomas Carlyle
) and its lack of comprehensiveness. Ian Kershaw has praised the book for being “elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating”
Ryback is also author of Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published by Oxford University Press in 1989.
Harvard University
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Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
and The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. He is also author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, published by Pantheon in 2000, a New York Times notable book for 2000. He also wrote Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2008. The book has appeared in more than two dozen editions around the world, and has been both praised for the insights it yields into Hitler's life and personality and criticized for some imprecisions (for instance in its discussion of Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...
) and its lack of comprehensiveness. Ian Kershaw has praised the book for being “elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating”
Ryback is also author of Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published by Oxford University Press in 1989.
External links
- Académie Diplomatique Internationale official website
- Hitler's Private Library at the publisher's webpage
- "Hitler's Family - In The Shadow Of The Dictator" Ryback appears in this documentary from the "As It Happened" TV series