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The stark contrast of good and evil in Rise & Fall is indeed gripping, and the Rise & Fall is an excellent book. Although Shirer never says so directly, there can be no doubt that he loathed the s with every fiber of his being. (And rightly so). But he did not let that loathing turn into blind rage. Instead, he harnessed it with rigorous scholarship and intellectual discipline to contruct, brick by unyielding brick, a brilliant, undeniable, unchallengable, beacon of truth. Each brick is anchored in place by a supporting footnote. It is a blazing testament. The Collapse is a far more subtle human canvas — it has good and evil, and much between, brought out in many shades, and interwoven. History can be complex, subtle, confusing, and susceptible to different interpretations. The Collapse demonstrates this.
