yes, P-related. Mag in which elites name some best they've read, there is this on the Bureaucracy of Death. Imagine researching it, but P was there first-- after Arendt.

[rich]

oh dear
Woven into the narrative are his contemplative interludes—perspectives
gleaned during walks in the woods, reminiscences about a lost love,

i'll probably give it a try, anyway
thanks, man
rich


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:23 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dan Gretton’s I, You, We, Them (Heinemann, £25). Twenty years in the
> making, intended as an eventual 2,000-page double volume, this remarkably
> powerful book entails a dogged and worldwide pursuit of ‘the desk-killer’,
> the government functionary or business executive whose decisions so often
> cost human lives.
>
> The model of this remote-control assassin is Hitler’s architect Albert
> Speer, but the German story is subsumed in a far more compelling and modern
> investigation of the collective amnesia which so often operates in the
> telling of national histories, including our own.
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