Washington Independent Review of Books: Our 51 Favorite Books of 2022

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Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom by Andrew Nagorski (Simon & Schuster). Reviewed by Kitty Kelley. “Lights! Camera! Action! Andrew Nagorski’s Saving Freud ought to be coming to a theater near you. This nonfiction work crackles like a novel and sparks with the razzle-dazzle of a big-screen extravaganza: an unforgettable cast of characters (think ‘The Dirty Dozen’), spine-tingling suspense (‘The Day of the Jackal’), a death-defying savior (maybe ‘Mephisto’), and Nazis — the epitome of evil.”