First published in 1976 and made into a film in 1978,The Boys from Brazil was the first successful book toexplore the possible consequences of cloning and the re-emergence of Nazi ideas.Born in New York City on 27th August 1929, Ira Levin isone of America's most successful living authors. ... The themeof supernatural forces invading everyday life was taken upby many writers and film-makers in the following decade,most notably in films such as "The Omen" and "TheExorcist". ... But in its themes this book ishighly original, for it takes real characters and situationsand mixes them with scie...

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Some say Hitler was a lazy and reluctant decision maker. ... In his book explaining Hitler's Germany, an entry in Goebbel's (a German politician at that time) diary made in March of 1943 seems to support the view that the Third Reich was a weak dictatorship when he wrote, "We live in a state where areas of authority have been unclearly divided...the consequence is a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy....From this developed most of the quarrels between the real leaders and the authorities." ...

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- Every man is a maker of history; in fact, some man not only left a mark on those they knew through life, but they left a lasting impression on the entire world. ... Some of the of the main form of mass communication that Hitler used were; large meetings within the Nazi party, large dehumanization camps and a book entitled "Mein Kampf- which sold over five million copies before the start of World War II. ... Reading his book entitled "Mein Kampf- (My Struggle), was like listening to him saying "if there is a supreme form of human being, then there must be others less than supreme-; moreover, ...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National S...

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