The Many Lives Of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin

A probing study that follows a young diarist’s notebook from hiding place to global icon, reconstructing the manuscript’s textual history, editorial cuts and restorations, and the family, publishers, scholars and advocates who shaped her public image. Through archival research and cultural analysis it interrogates myths, authenticity disputes, commercialization, and the politics of Holocaust memory that transformed a private journal into an enduring, contested symbol.

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