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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Teresa Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)
Description: Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the colorful and complex life of the author's mother-in-law.
In a time like our own of intense propaganda and manipulation, the only WWII female correspondent who covered both theaters of war, Pat Hartwell identified Hitler from a pile of ashes for the US military, and the troops awarded her with a million-dollar painting from Hitler's study. Really?
She was the only woman in the CBS news room, assistant to the head of the Office of Wa...