And largely through his showmanship, and his bias-cut dresses, he kept people interested.
Other writers — including the dictator's latest biographer, the historian Volker Ullrich — have focused on Hitler as a politician who rose to power through demagoguery, showmanship and nativist appeals to the masses.
He has no wish to knock the policies of other major institutions, but it's clear that he's keen to avoid any hint of exit-through-gift-shop commercial showmanship.
On the one end is Trump, the frontrunner who through bombast and showmanship has dominated the polls for months.
It takes old-fashioned dance-craze R&B and James Brown showmanship through the looking glass via a disorientating array of studio trickery.
Weeks ago, he was a joke to those same exact people, and he's done it through Pirandello-ish showmanship, like, "If I say it's this way, than it is this way".
Over more than 15 years, through a combination of showmanship and musical risk-taking, he built up the Cologne Philharmonie, making its new hall one of Europe's leading homes for music.
Middelhoff climbed to the top of one of the most careful and close-mouthed companies in the world through a combination of energetic showmanship, trust in his hunches and appetite for risk.
