Review of Daniel Kehlmann's latest novel, The Director,
>which documents the little compromises that led G.W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.
Also discusses his Measuring the World (2005):
>The book is structured around the parallel lives of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt, intellectual giants whose lives in the early nineteenth century could not have seemed more different.
>which documents the little compromises that led G.W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.
Also discusses his Measuring the World (2005):
>The book is structured around the parallel lives of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt, intellectual giants whose lives in the early nineteenth century could not have seemed more different.
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