Among you cyber-modernists there may be a few who don't know that
Wyndham Lewis wrote books on Hitler and Germany:
 
         _ Hitler _  first published in 1931
         _ The Hitler Cult _ first published in 1939
 
When I was in grad school, a very-well-known Professor of English
once expressed dismay that I was reading Lewis. "But what about
his politics?!" he said.  And he hadn't read either of those
books.
 
And I failed miserably in my attempts to get the local college
library to purchase some of Lewis's books, of which they had only
one or two. I had found a slew of them in a used bookstore; they
were in excellent condition and available at bargain-basement
prices. No go. It didn't matter that T.S. Eliot had called Lewis
"the greatest prose writer of my generation". The library some
years later did purchase the Black Sparrow editions, but these
were put in a special collection devoted to showcasing the art of
modern bookbinding, and so they did not circulate.
 
Tim Romano
Swarthmore PA
 
Christina Poppy wrote:
>
> john,
>
> there's an interesting book called _Explaining Hitler_ by Rosenbaum.
> Hitler's baby picture is on the cover.  This is a whole subject apart from
> Pound, but the various theories on how Hitler became _Hitler_ are broad
> and extensive.  my point, however, was that the only way to explain
> without excusing is to include everyone as possible evil-doers, and no one
> wants to think about themselves that way.  so we dance around pointing
> fingers instead.
>
> tina