Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography)

Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century’s greatest conflict.

Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich’s Berlin apartment. Coming of age at the dawn of the Weimar Republ...