Jack El-Hai is a widely-published journalist who covers history, medicine, and science, and the author of the acclaimed book The Lobotomist. He is the winner of the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, as well as fellowships and grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Center for Arts Criticism. He lives in Minneapolis.
Enthralling story which grips from the first page and reads like a thriller --<iDaily Mail, Must Read, (UK) Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich?s highest ranking officials... El-Hai?s gripping account turns a chilling page in American history and provides an unsettling meditation on the machinations of evil. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Journalist El-Hai?s haunting historical account raises questions about the human capacity to cause harm... In this thoroughly engaging story of the jocular master war criminal and the driven, self-aware psychiatrist, El-Hai finds no simple binary. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Well researched and well written --Library Journal Jack El-Hai?s biography of Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley provides a riveting look at the top Nazis awaiting trial -- and reveals the dangerous power of intimacy with evil. --Minneapolis Star Tribune If you liked Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, try The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai. --Psychology Today With full access to Kelley?s notes on Nazi psychology, El-Hai infuses his story with the messy, compelling details of people?s lives. These tug the reader inside Kelley?s head for an engrossing exploration of human nature, sanity and despair. --Science News This intimate and insightful portrait of two intersecting, outsized personalities--one an exemplar of public service and the other an avatar of evil--is as suspenseful as a classic Hitchcock film that hinges on an eerie psychological secret. Readers of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist will be riveted by Jack El-Hai?s moving study of how good and evil can converge in a heightened instant and across a lifetime. -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far From the Tree In the chilling tale of Dr. Douglas Kelley, a young U.S. Army psychiatrist and his secret evaluations of Nazi leader Hermann Goring, Jack El-Hai weaves a harrowing narrative that brilliantly probes the depths of evil... [A]n utterly fascinating book. -- Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Devil in the Grove