The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Why it’s on the list: Rosenberg’s 1930 racial-mystical tract, the Nazi party’s second-most-distributed book after Mein Kampf — a primary source rather than a recommendation on the merits, read as evidence of what the regime’s ideologues actually believed.

Where I heard about it

• @typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).

Connections

• Ideology — What the book is evidence of.
• Nationalism — The tradition it belongs to.
• World War II — The regime it helped furnish with a worldview.
• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.