xii, 144pp. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spines. 8vo. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Previous owner's name stamp on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, not price clipped. Hailed as the first interpretation of Hitler in terms of the history of thought. dealing with Germany's lack of a commonly shared historical tradition and her lack of a tradition of freedom - it investigates the after effects of the cult of genius and of the failure of the bourgeois revolution.
