Goebbels: A Biography
{{short description|2010 book by Peter Longerich}}
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| author = Peter Longerich
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| published = 2010
| publisher = Siedler Verlag (Germany)
Random House (UK)
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| english_pub_date = 2015
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| pages = 964
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| isbn = 978-1-4000-6751-0
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{{Joseph Goebbels series}}
Goebbels: A Biography is a 2015 book by Peter Longerich. The book presents an account and analysis of the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, with extensive material from his diary which he kept from 1923 to 1945. It is an English translation of the 2010 German book Goebbels: Biographie by Longerich.{{cite news |last=Sheehan |first=James |date=May 13, 2015 |title="Goebbels: A Biography" by Peter Longerich|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/goebbels-a-biography-by-peter-longerich.html |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York City, New York |access-date=May 16, 2015 }}{{cite news |last=Kahn-Harris |first=Keith |date=April 29, 2015 |title=Goebbels by Peter Longerich; book review |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/goebbels-by-peter-longerich-book-review-10213572.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=London, UK |access-date=May 16, 2015 }}
Following its publication, Goebbels' estate sued publisher Random House, because the book quotes excerpts from his diaries without paying royalties to his estate.{{cite news |last=Alberge |first=Dalya |date=April 18, 2015 |title=Random House told it should pay to quote Joseph Goebbels in biography|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/random-house-told-it-should-pay-to-quote-joseph-goebbels-in-biography |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London, UK |access-date=May 16, 2015 }}