Hitler's piano player

"He was a man who enjoyed the confidences of both the Fuhrer and FDR, a man with the world's most unique perspective on the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. Ernst Hanfstaengl (known to all as Putzi) was haughty court jester, soothing pianist, and savvy foreign press chief for Hitler during the Nazi leader's ascendancy and later played a lead role in Roosevelt's top-secret project to use black propaganda against the Third Reich. Filled with revelations about Hitler's personal life and descriptions of American psychological warfare, Hitler's Piano Player tells the story of a man torn apart by the most antagonistic of loyalties." "An urbane Harvard-educated German, Putzi was living in Germany in 1922 when he first heard Adolf Hitler speak in a Munich beer hall. Introducing himself after the speech, Putzi began one of the strangest relationships in twentieth-century politics." "As he tried to ingratiate Hitler with Munich high-society and polish his image in the eyes of the world, Putzi also helped finance Mein Kampf, claimed to have devised the chant of "Sieg Heil," tried desperately to get Hitler to meet with Winston Churchill, and attempted to fix Hitler up with th