Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2015
Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century’s greatest conflict.Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Glamour and decadence thrived beside abject poverty, and the German capital’s outpouring of literature, fash…