Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K. Garelick. I’m usually wary of celebrity biographies but this one is great. It’s thoroughly researched and unflinching in its coverage of Chanel’s ties to Nazis and her role as an agent for the Vichy occupation.…
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. Slow going, because of density as well as subject matter. But illuminating. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood. A series of loosely linked, semi-autobiographical stories about the author’s time in Berlin in the 1930’s. At times funny, at…