Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prize-winning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has also written for such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.

'As tense as any thriller ... Edmundson traces some very interesting links between Freud and Hitler' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'This book, readable and thrilling, should, I need hardly add, be read' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 'By tracing the intersecting stories of Freud and Hitler in the days before World War II, Edmundson sheds a fresh light on the allure of fundamentalist politics and the threat it poses to the values of civilization ... a bracing, brilliant, and urgent book' Michael Pollan 'Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud's flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting' Jonathan Derbyshire, Guardian

Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prize-winning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has also written for such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.

'As tense as any thriller ... Edmundson traces some very interesting links between Freud and Hitler' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'This book, readable and thrilling, should, I need hardly add, be read' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 'By tracing the intersecting stories of Freud and Hitler in the days before World War II, Edmundson sheds a fresh light on the allure of fundamentalist politics and the threat it poses to the values of civilization ... a bracing, brilliant, and urgent book' Michael Pollan 'Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud's flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting' Jonathan Derbyshire, Guardian

Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prize-winning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has also written for such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.

'As tense as any thriller ... Edmundson traces some very interesting links between Freud and Hitler' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'This book, readable and thrilling, should, I need hardly add, be read' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 'By tracing the intersecting stories of Freud and Hitler in the days before World War II, Edmundson sheds a fresh light on the allure of fundamentalist politics and the threat it poses to the values of civilization ... a bracing, brilliant, and urgent book' Michael Pollan 'Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud's flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting' Jonathan Derbyshire, Guardian