Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992
Above the Abyss
By Gordon A. Craig
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
by Alan Bullock
Knopf, 1,081 pp., $35.00
The subtitle of Alan Bullock's new book is taken from Plutarch, that master of exemplary history, who in the tenth book of his Parallel Lives, which contained his account of the careers of Pericles and Hannibal's stubborn antagonist Fabius Maximus, wrote that his literary work had been sustained by the belief that the public services and moral demeanor of the persons he wrote about would serve as a practical stimulus to his readers.
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