What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock
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After teaching & raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes she is truly weary of her routine. But how, at 51, to establish a separate identity? Her newfound freedom may not sit so well with the rest of the Scofields, who operate strictly within the confines of polite Midwestern values. They'd be polite to Hitler if need be. But underneath the facade, private triumphs & tragedies
- including struggles with alcoholism & illicit affairs
- simmer, & Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web. BEING POLITE TO HITLER is a richly wrought portrait of a woman coming into her own in the middle of her life & a family that experiences passions, joys, & grief against the backdrop of the post-WWII era.