Dr. Richard Koenigsberg recounts his path from academia to creating and running a scholarly book marketing business.

Drawing on decades of research, he compares Hitler’s scapegoating of Jews to Donald Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants, warning of the dangers of political fantasies.

Advocating “Awakening from the Nightmare of History,” he suggests that certain historical events might be viewed as forms of collective psychoses.

He champions multiculturalism and moving beyond narrow ethnic or national identities.