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Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Andrew Nagorski

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A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud's last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many Jews had fled Austria, but the most famous Austrian Jew remained in Vienna, where he had lived since early childhood. Sigmund Freud was eighty-one years old, ill with cancer, and still unconvinced that his life was in danger. But several prominent people close to Freud thought otherwise, and they began a coordinated effort to persuade Freud to leave his beloved Vienna and emigrate to England. The group included a Welsh physician, Napoleon's great-grandniece, an American ambassador, Freud's devoted youngest daughter Anna and his personal doctor. Saving Freud is the story of how this remarkable collection of people finally succeeded in coaxing Freud, a man who seemingly knew the human mind better than anyone else, to emerge from his deep state of denial about the looming catastrophe, allowing them to extricate him and his family from Austria so that they could settle in London. There Freud would live out the remaining sixteen months of his life in freedom. It is "an insight-filled group portrait of the founder of psychoanalysis and his followers...Compelling reading" (The Wall Street Journal).

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Aug 15th, 2023
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.37in - 5.61in - 1.02in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781982172848
  • Categories: • Social Scientists & Psychologists• Jewish• Modern - 20th Century - General

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About the Author

Nagorski, Andrew: - Andrew Nagorski served as Newsweek's bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He has also written for countless publications. Visit him at AndrewNagorski.com.

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Seth MacFarlane is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.

My pal @AndrewNagorski has a fantastic new book out: “Saving Freud” is a fast-paced, informative account of the rescue of Sigmund Freud by a group of dedicated friends who put themselves at risk help him escape to London during the rise of the Nazi regime. Definite recommend. https://t.co/LTe1GiUAb7

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Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.

Andrew Nagorski’s “Saving Freud” mixes the pacing of a historical thriller with a meditation on the limits of insight. The result is hard to put down, poignant, and distressingly timely, @PatBlanchfield writes. https://t.co/hNYsPM0Ish

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The latest BIO Podcast features BIO's own @kittykelley in conversation with journalist @AndrewNagorski about his book SAVING FREUD: THE RESCUERS WHO BROUGHT HIM TO FREEDOM, published by @SimonBooks. https://t.co/gNLyJI7heT

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"Nagorski tells a riveting new story, one that shows just how narrow Freud's escape from the Nazi genocide was. . . . The narrative pace and Nagorski's fluid writing give this book the character of an adventure story. "

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Seth MacFarlane
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Seth MacFarlane is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.

My pal @AndrewNagorski has a fantastic new book out: “Saving Freud” is a fast-paced, informative account of the rescue of Sigmund Freud by a group of dedicated friends who put themselves at risk help him escape to London during the rise of the Nazi regime. Definite recommend. https://t.co/LTe1GiUAb7

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The New Republic
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2 years

Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.

Andrew Nagorski’s “Saving Freud” mixes the pacing of a historical thriller with a meditation on the limits of insight. The result is hard to put down, poignant, and distressingly timely, @PatBlanchfield writes. https://t.co/hNYsPM0Ish

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