I mean, how can you explain Hitler, for example?

Hitler's supposed physical abnormalities and sexual proclivities interest him far less than they did, say, Ron Rosenbaum, in his book, "Explaining Hitler."

Explaining Hitler is a half-comic, half-terrifying account of the trouble that this man still causes in the mind.

Even among those who have no theological or moral objection to trying to explain Hitler, the task has been exceedingly difficult.

Ron Rosenbaum is the author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars.

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil.

Hell, it might even explain Hitler at Munich.

One word that explains both Sinatra and Hitler:

Ron Rosenbaum's impressive book "Explaining Hitler" (1998) was the very model of cultural history-writing at its most insightful and provocative.

But that was like trying to explain Hitler in terms of artistic frustration.