One of the brightest historians writing today.

Newsweek

A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative...Taylor's history provides plenty of revelant lessons for today - and not only for Europe.

Kirkus Reviews

Firm and rightly grounded in its own time and place, The Downfall of Money nonetheless resonates in our own.

Martin Rubin, The Washington Times

Taylor (Dresden) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic.

Publisher's Weekly

Excellent...By skillfully weaving together economic history with political narrative and drawing on sources from everyday life as well as the inner cabinet of diplomacy, Mr. Taylor tells the history of the Weimar inflation as the life-and-death struggle of the first German democracy...This is a dramatic story, well told.

Adam Tooze, Wall Street Journal

Exorcising Hitler has . . . colorful anecdotes and harrowing recollections, an omnivorous intelligence and wide reading in the scholarly literature.

The New York Times on EXORCISING HITLER