Frederic Spotts
{{short description|American historian (born 1930)}}
Frederic Spotts (born February 2, 1930{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/spotts-frederic-1930|title=Spotts, Frederic 1930– | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}) is an American former diplomat and cultural historian.{{cite news |title=Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/frederic-spotts/hitler-and-the-power-of-aesthetics/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}} He was educated in Swarthmore College, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Oxford University.
Works
- {{cite book |last1=Spotts |first1=Frederic |title=The Churches and Politics in Germany |date=1973 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Conway |first1=John S. |title=The Churches and Politics in Germany by Frederic Spotts (review) |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |date=1974 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=487–488 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/569887/pdf |language=en |issn=1710-1093}}Penzel, Klaus. A Journal of Church and State; Waco, Texas Vol. 18, Iss. 3, (Fall 1976): 561.{{cite journal |last1=Ludlow |first1=P. W. |title=The Churches and Politics in Germany. By Frederic Spotts. Pp. xii + 420. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. $15. |journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |date=25 March 2011 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=433–435 |doi=10.1017/S0022046900049654|s2cid=156067734 }}{{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Guenter |title=The Churches and Politics in Germany. By Frederic Spotts. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Pp. 419. $15.00.) |journal=American Political Science Review |date=1 August 2014 |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=1376–1377 |doi=10.2307/1959239|jstor=1959239 |s2cid=151342925 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Spotts |first1=Frederic |title=Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival |date=1994 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-06665-4 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Bayreuth |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/frederic-spotts/bayreuth/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{cite journal |title=Frederic Spotts. Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. x + 334 pp. |journal=Cambridge Opera Journal |date=27 August 2008 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=277–283 |doi=10.1017/S0954586700004602}}Kater, Michael H. Central European History; Atlanta Vol. 28, Iss. 4, (Winter 1995): 563.{{cite journal |last1=Saunders |first1=Thomas J. |title=by Frederic Spotts by Frederic Spotts. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1994. x, 334 pp. $35.00 U.S. |journal=Canadian Journal of History |date=April 1995 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=132–134 |doi=10.3138/cjh.30.1.132}}{{cite journal |last1=Freeman |first1=Kirrily |title=Frederic Spotts. The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2008. Pp. 283. $35.00. |journal=The American Historical Review |date=December 2009 |volume=114 |issue=5 |pages=1550–1551 |doi=10.1086/ahr.114.5.1550}}
- {{cite book |last1=Spotts |first1=Frederic |title=Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics |date=2003 |publisher=Pimlico |isbn=978-0-7126-6788-3 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Wheatcroft |first1=Geoffrey |title=Review: Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/19/politics.art |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=18 October 2002}}{{cite magazine |title=Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/03/hitler-and-the-power-of-aesthetics |accessdate=22 May 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=James |title=The Terrible Beauty of Nazi Aesthetics |url=https://forward.com/articles/8694/the-terrible-beauty-of-nazi-aesthetics/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=The Forward |date=April 25, 2009}}{{cite news |title=Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2003-05-01/hitler-and-power-aesthetics |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=Foreign Affairs |date=28 January 2009}}{{cite journal |last1=Levitt |first1=Morton |title=Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |date=2003 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=175–178 |doi=10.1353/jml.2004.0034 |s2cid=201763096 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170271/pdf |language=en |issn=1529-1464|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite book |last1=Spotts |first1=Frederic |title=The Shameful Peace: How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation |date=2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-14237-2 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Lethbridge |first1=Robert |title=Book Review: The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation. By Frederic Spotts. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 285. £25.00 (hbk) |journal=Journal of European Studies |date=15 March 2010 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=77–78 |doi=10.1177/00472441100400010604|s2cid=162208744 }}{{cite news |title=Otherwise occupied |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/otherwise-occupied/news-story/f59491be41a964a2be9a7dacabd18a84 |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=www.theaustralian.com.au}}{{cite news |title=The passions and politics of culture in wartime France |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-passions-and-politics-of-culture-in-wartime-france-1.915584 |accessdate=22 May 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Wheatcroft |first1=Geoffrey |title=Path of Least Resistance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 November 2010}}{{cite journal |last1=Ungar |first1=Steven |title=. By Frederic Spotts. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 285. $35.00.. By Laurence Bertrand Dorléac. Translated by, Jane Marie Todd. Foreword by, Serge Guilbaut. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. Pp. xiv+431. $39.95. |journal=The Journal of Modern History |date=December 2010 |volume=82 |issue=4 |pages=960–963 |doi=10.1086/656160}}{{cite news |title=The art of collaboration |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/france-intellectuals-paris |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=New Statesman |date=November 2008 |language=en |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001702/https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/france-intellectuals-paris |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite book |last1=Spotts |first1=Frederic |title=Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann |date=2016 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-22097-1 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Walter |title='Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann' by Frederic Spotts |work= Lambda Literary |url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2016/06/cursed-legacy-the-tragic-life-of-klaus-mann-by-frederic-spotts/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |date=June 12, 2016 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Feigel |first1=Lara |title=Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederic Spotts – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/06/cursed-legacy-frederic-spotts-review-tragic-life-of-klaus-mann-son-thomas-nazism-communism-suicide |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=The Observer |date=6 March 2016}}{{cite news |last1=schaffner |first1=anna katherina |title=Mann's inhumanity to Mann - Biography |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/manns-inhumanity-to-mann/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=TLS |date=August 19–26, 2016}}{{cite news |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederic Spotts. Yale Univ., $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-300-21800-8 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-300-21800-8 |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Was Klaus Mann all Thomas Mann's fault? |url=https://www.spectator.com.au/2016/02/was-klaus-mann-all-thomas-manns-fault/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=The Spectator Australia |date=27 February 2016}}{{cite news |title=Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederick Spotts review |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/cursed-legacy-the-tragic-life-of-klaus-mann-by-frederick-spotts-review-1.2612060 |accessdate=22 May 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
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