Jack Fairweather
@jackfairweather.bsky.social
Author of The Volunteer, Costa Book of the Year 2019, Sunday Times No.1 bestseller: http://bit.ly/37Ogq6b. New book The Prosecutor out in 2025: http://bit.ly/3VauMbV
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How do you change a culture bent on authoritarianism? Or steer people towards empathy for minorities and the vulnerable? I didn't realize when I began writing my new book about the gay Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer it would become a primer for our own troubled time. In 1949 Bauer returned...
Thanks Suzie! And yes please join me and @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social to learn how Bauer managed to overcome the forces of fascism in postwar Germany
Costa prize winner @jackfairweather.bsky.social will be launching his new book at Waterstones Piccadilly in London on Monday 3rd March and you can come! More info here: www.waterstones.com/events/jack-...
February 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thanks Suzie! And yes please join me and @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social to learn how Bauer managed to overcome the forces of fascism in postwar Germany
How do you change a culture bent on authoritarianism? Or steer people towards empathy for minorities and the vulnerable? I didn't realize when I began writing my new book about the gay Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer it would become a primer for our own troubled time. In 1949 Bauer returned...
February 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
How do you change a culture bent on authoritarianism? Or steer people towards empathy for minorities and the vulnerable? I didn't realize when I began writing my new book about the gay Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer it would become a primer for our own troubled time. In 1949 Bauer returned...
Just came across this from Edgar L Jones writing in The Atlantic, Feb 1946: "We destroyed fascists, not fascism; men, not ideas. Our triumphs did not serve as
evidence that democracy is best for the
world, any more than Russian victories
proved that communism is an ideal
system for all mankind...
evidence that democracy is best for the
world, any more than Russian victories
proved that communism is an ideal
system for all mankind...
February 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just came across this from Edgar L Jones writing in The Atlantic, Feb 1946: "We destroyed fascists, not fascism; men, not ideas. Our triumphs did not serve as
evidence that democracy is best for the
world, any more than Russian victories
proved that communism is an ideal
system for all mankind...
evidence that democracy is best for the
world, any more than Russian victories
proved that communism is an ideal
system for all mankind...
My new book on the amazing Fritz Bauer is out this month! It's the story of Bauer's battle to force a West German govt stacked with ex-Nazis to reckon with the Holocaust. I’m going to be sharing research that's moved and disturbed me over the past 5 yrs of following Bauer's footsteps, but first
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My new book on the amazing Fritz Bauer is out this month! It's the story of Bauer's battle to force a West German govt stacked with ex-Nazis to reckon with the Holocaust. I’m going to be sharing research that's moved and disturbed me over the past 5 yrs of following Bauer's footsteps, but first