Author Description

Product Description A biography of Irish journalist, James Vincent Murphy, who started out as a Catholic priest, spent the twenties in Rome and Paris, and reported from Berlin on the Nazis as an official propagandist. An international lecturer and linguist, Murphy knew many of Europe's famed intellectuals. For a time, he was the official translator of Hitler's speeches into English, and it was his translation of Mein Kampf that is recognized as the first unabridged version in English. Review...a masterly re-creation of the life of the man who cried Wolf! when nobody wanted to hear.... They have shown wonderful ingenuity in recapturing the domestic detail of the past...they have made an original and stimulating book. About the Author James J. Barnes is Chairman of the Department of History at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.