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Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai is the author of many books and articles on medicine, science, and history. He has written more than 500 articles and essays for The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Wired, American Heritage, The History Channel Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and... show more

Jack El-Hai is the author of many books and articles on medicine, science, and history. He has written more than 500 articles and essays for The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Wired, American Heritage, The History Channel Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications.His books include The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books), Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines (University of Minnesota Press), and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (John Wiley & Sons, 2005, winner of the annual book award of the Medical Journalists' Association of the U.K.). El-Hai is a faculty member in the MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College.You can learn more about his work at http://el-hai.com.
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Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it 10 years ago
note: I read this one in October of 2013, but thought I'd bother to give it the proper Booklikes formatting since I make reference to it in a more recent review. This book was quick and interesting, but lacked a certain je ne sais quoi for me and, at times, felt a bit "forced" in its attempt to g...
Sister Mary Murderous
Sister Mary Murderous rated it 12 years ago
For more than seven decades, we've been trying to understand the nature of the Nazi mind. Was there something uniquely psychopathic about them, or could their horrors be wreaked by any country's leaders and citizens?One of the first people to get an opportunity to try to answer this question was Cap...
ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it 17 years ago
I'm having a hard time getting into this one. It's a little drier than I was expecting. It doesn't hold my attention at all, which is strange considering how fascinated I am by the topic.
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