k. smith, sinclair lewis, all these people are in and out, dorothy thompson and they can't quite get a fixon this. and why not? for two reasons. one, there is a sense in many cases that hitler is this odd to appeared he is too weird. he'll never be anybody of note. in fact, dorothy thompson, the most in a correspondent of the era goes in an interview set for a year before he takes power and says i thought it was going to make the first future dictator of germany within 50 seconds i realized i wasn't. it is the startling insignificance of this man who has the eyes of an alcoholic and all this. and on the other hand, there are some americans really early and i was determined in this book, which the name was the informal way some of the american journalists began to refer to germany in the 30s among themselves. that was something i had known. so the first people who met him as far back as 1922 a junior military and embassy called truman smith cannot a hearse correspondent thought this guy is an amazing demagogue and he could go far. but it wasn't linear. it wasn't that people gradually do mor