Benjamin Carter Hett
Praise for The Death of Democracy
Extremely fine... with careful prose and scholarship, with fine thumbnail sketches of individuals and concise discussions of institutions and economics, he brings these events close to us. Hett... sensitively descri ...
Timothy Snyder, The New York Times
Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing. Hett provides a lesson about the fragility of democracy and the danger of that complacent belief that liberal institutions will always protect us.
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
Readable and well-researched, with the injection of fresh contemporary voices, The Death of Democracy is also a thoughtful reflection of how our time more resembles the Thirties than the Noughties.
Daily Telegraph
Extremely fine... with careful prose and scholarship, with fine thumbnail sketches of individuals and concise discussions of institutions and economics, he brings these events close to us. Hett... sensitively descri ...
Timothy Snyder, The New York Times
Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing. Hett provides a lesson about the fragility of democracy and the danger of that complacent belief that liberal institutions will always protect us.
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
Readable and well-researched, with the injection of fresh contemporary voices, The Death of Democracy is also a thoughtful reflection of how our time more resembles the Thirties than the Noughties.
Daily Telegraph
Extremely fine... with careful prose and scholarship, with fine thumbnail sketches of individuals and concise discussions of institutions and economics, he brings these events close to us. Hett... sensitively descri ...
Timothy Snyder, The New York Times
Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing. Hett provides a lesson about the fragility of democracy and the danger of that complacent belief that liberal institutions will always protect us.
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
Readable and well-researched, with the injection of fresh contemporary voices, The Death of Democracy is also a thoughtful reflection of how our time more resembles the Thirties than the Noughties.
Daily Telegraph
Articles featuring Benjamin Carter Hett
Benjamin Carter Hett on the paradox of Hitler and his rise to power
What caused the fall of Germany, one of the most progressive governments in 20th century Europe, and its rise as one of the most terrifying? Benjamin Carter Hett looks at one of the pivotal periods in modern history and the paradox of Hitler.