{"title":"Sergio Luzzatto","description":"\u003cp\u003eSergio Luzzatto's works offer a profound exploration of historical lives and events, weaving biography with deep cultural insight. His narratives, such as \u003cem\u003ePrimo Levi's Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e, illuminate the complexities of individual experience against the backdrop of broader social and political upheavals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect meticulous research combined with eloquent storytelling that brings history to life. Luzzatto's focus often revolves around significant figures and movements, providing a nuanced understanding of their impact and legacy within the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-first-fascist-by-sergio-luzzatto-9780241715819","title":"The First Fascist","description":"The extraordinary story of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Mor s, the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world, and his ominous legacy\n\nIn nineteenth-century France, the first fascist was born. Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Mor s became the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he tore France apart with his inflammatory media rhetoric and violent stunts. Who was this man, who both anticipated and propelled the fascist politics that erupted in the twentieth century?\n\nDrawing on a wealth of original sources, award-winning historian Sergio Luzzatto explores the forgotten story of a father of fascism. He shows how, after losing aristocratic status in modern, democratic France, Mor s led an adventurous life cattle ranching on the American frontier and building a railway in the jungles of Indochina - yet found all his schemes dogged by failure. He follows in Mor s's footsteps, as, blaming supposed Jewish machinations for his defeats, he returned to France and soon controlled a large, violent militia of disgruntled workers. Even when his rapid political rise was torpedoed by a highly publicized financial scandal, his shadow continued to loom. In Vichy France, as Jewish people were being deported to Auschwitz, officials would gather to celebrate Mor s's memory. Vivid and unsettling, The First Fascist is an engrossing exploration of the roots of our present discontent.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288903074028,"sku":"9780241715819","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9518ca01eec829c431fdd5a96018f925.jpg?v=1770603445"},{"product_id":"primo-levis-resistance-by-sergio-luzzatto-9781250097194","title":"Primo Levi's Resistance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first attempts to launch guerrilla warfare against occupying Nazi forces. Those three months have been largely overlooked by Levi's biographers; indeed, they went strikingly unmentioned by Levi himself. For the rest of his life he barely acknowledged that autumn in the Alps. But an obscure passage in Levi's \u003cem\u003eThe Periodic Table\u003c\/em\u003e hints that his deportation to Auschwitz was linked directly to an incident from that time: \"an ugly secret\" that had made him give up the struggle, \"extinguishing all will to resist, indeed to live.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat did Levi mean by those dramatic lines? Using extensive archival research, Sergio Luzzatto's groundbreaking \u003cem\u003ePrimo Levi's Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the events of 1943 in vivid detail. Just days before Levi was captured, Luzzatto shows, his group summarily executed two teenagers who had sought to join the partisans, deciding the boys were reckless and couldn't be trusted. The brutal episode has been shrouded in silence, but its repercussions would shape Levi's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining investigative flair with profound empathy, \u003cem\u003ePrimo Levi's Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e offers startling insight into the origins of the moral complexity that runs through the work of Primo Levi himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243748929772,"sku":"9781250097194","price":18.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250097194-primo-levi-s-resistance-1.jpg?v=1787988892"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/sergio-luzzatto.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}