The opening paragraph of a review by Marc Fisher of Ron Hansens' book Hitler's Niece that appeared in the Washington Post Book World:

Hitler and Nixon, our two great obsessions of the latter half of this century, have won places in the pantheon of darkness, great evil figures, moody and mysterious yet ordinary and pathetic. Nixon, at least, is ours—an American crook, roiling with petty jealousies and hates.

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