Download or read book In the Garden of Beasts written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd is a mild-mannered academic from Chicago who becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. This book tells the true story of love, intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous 12 months that witnessed Hitler's rise to power.