Infernal Library

How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes? And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm? Putting daunting research to relevatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions. Marshaled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the twentieth century's most notorious figures, whose conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brokered no argument.