Author's PrefaceThe Valley of the Shadow - novel In November, 1938, Leni Riefenstahl brings her Olympic film to New York, just as Kristallnacht - the night in which the full force of Nazi persecution is unleashed against the German Jews - makes her the most prominent German who is available to the American media. Stung by the discrepancy between her own assessment of herself as an independent artist, and the assumption of the media that she is a spokesperson...