هتلر وحماتي

Pat Lockridge, one of the first women hired by CBS Radio, was the only journalist to cover both the Pacific and Atlantic fronts during World War II. She conducted two interviews with Hermann Goering, went up to Hitler's stronghold at the Eagle's Nest, was a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, and served as mayor of Berchtesgaden after the war. Even her four sons sometimes doubted the veracity of their mother's accounts. In her first meeting with her daughter-in-law (writer Therese Svoboda), Pat showed her a photo of herself with a pile of ashes, and said that the American leadership had asked her to determine whether the ashes belonged to Hitler. Was Pat a storyteller, a pioneer in her field, or simply doing her job? Infused with dark humor and personal reflections, this memoir explores the stories we inherit and those we make up, the official histories we repeat, and the subtle manipulations we accept. From Cold War propaganda and McCarthy-era paranoia to newsroom sexism and the bizarre theater of postwar art-world politics, Hitler and My Mother-in-Law reveals an extraordinary, perhaps artificial, life. With insight, Svoboda deconstructs the contradictions inherent in such a novel, incorporating reflections on her own experiences in journalism, family, and the troubled legacy of truth through marriage.