A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Saturday, December 8, 2018

MARTIN NIEMOLLER

Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemoller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis (New York: Basic Books, 2018). From the book jacket:

Whereas previous biographers have portrayed Niemoller as a principled man who was led astray by the Nazis, Hockenos contends that he knew exactly what Hitler stood for, and only gradually and reluctantly shed his right-wing sympathies. In fact, Niemoller's postwar confession represents the start of his long moral journey, not its end. Revealing the challenges and limits human of transformation, Then They Came for Me ultimately forces each of us to ask ourselves, What would I have done?