Erik Larson's Exploration of Hitler's Berlin

Award-winning writer Erik Larson was the featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on April 16, 2012.  He was interviewed by Robert Siegel, senior host of NPR’s newsmagazine, All Things Considered.Larson's In the Garden of Beasts is the saga of an American father and daughter who in July 1933  found themselves, and the rest of their family, transported to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. The father was William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professor from Chicago who, much to his surprise and everyone else's, was chosen by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany; Dodd's daughter, Martha, was 24 years old and came along for the adventure, and to escape a dead marriage. At first this new world seemed full of energy and goodwill, nothing like what newspapers back home had portrayed. But slowly a pall of intrigue and terror fell over the family--until the cataclysmic weekend that changed things forever.Erik Larson is also the author of Thunderstruck, Isaac's Storm, and The Devil in the White City, among others.Listen to this Kentucky Author Forum below: