As cancer continued to attack his jaw, Freud, in typical fashion, did not let fame make him complacent, but instead wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism. Upon his arrival, Freud was honored as he had never before been in his long, controversial life. In this gripping and revelatory historical narrative, Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on Freud's last two years, during which he escaped the Nazi regmie and fled to London. Though Freud was near the end of his life-eighty-one years old, battling cancer of the jaw-and Hitler's rise on the world stage was just beginning, the fates of these two historical giants were nonetheless intertwined. When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175,000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and the publication of his most controversial work― Moses and Monotheism.
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