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Middlebury, VT: Presentation with Jason Lutes
Oct
17
6:00 PM18:00

Middlebury, VT: Presentation with Jason Lutes

Jack Mayer will be speaking in Middlebury at 6 pm at the Marquis Theater with Jason Lutes, Vermont-based cartoonist and author of the graphic novel omnibus BERLIN, a 20 year literary masterpiece of historical fiction about the decline of the Weimar Republic and the rise of fascist extremism in 1930s Germany.

Get the details here: https://www.vermontbookshop.com/event/jason-lutes-jack-mayer-get-lit-marquis

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Charlotte, VT: How Did Germany’s Weimar Democracy Become the Third Reich?
Sep
20
7:00 PM19:00

Charlotte, VT: How Did Germany’s Weimar Democracy Become the Third Reich?

Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: The history that inspired Jack Mayer's historical novel BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN.” 
Free and open to the public

About the Book:

Before the Court of Heaven is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.

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New Haven, VT: How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich
Mar
22
7:00 PM19:00

New Haven, VT: How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich

Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: the history that inspired my novel, BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN.” 
Free and open to the public

About the Book:

Before the Court of Heaven is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.

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