TIMOTHY RYBACK has written on history and politics for more than three decades. He is the author of Hitler's Private Library, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and The Last Survivor, a New York Times Notable Book. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and the Financial Times. He is cofounder and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. Previously he was a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature at Harvard University.

• 1: Day 1 - Triumphant, Monday, January 30, 1933 2: Day 8 - War on the Press, Monday, February 6, 1933 3: Day 15 - Purging the Civil Service, Monday, February 13, 1933 4: Day 21 - Co-opting the Corporates, Monday, February 20, 1933 5: Day 28 - Guardrails, Monday, February 27, 1933 6: Day 29 - Suspending Civil Liberties, Tuesday, February 28, 1933 7: Day 34 - Election Day, Sunday, March 5, 1933 8: Day 37 - Crushing States' Rights, Wednesday, March 8, 1933 9: Day 50 - Swampland, Monday, March 20, 1933 10: Day 53 - The Thousand-Year Day, Thursday, March 23, 1933

An utterly gripping and suspenseful account of how an elected leader can make use of a democracy to destroy a democracy