Acclaimed author and historian Robert Dallek's insightful biography of William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany during the ascension of Hitler and the Nazi party, exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s Germany and the terrible burden of those who realized the horror that was to come.

Robert Dallek is an emeritus professor at Boston University. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. He is the author of many books, including Nixon and Kissinger, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963.