This fascinating examination of the life of Albert Speer, the genius architect of Adolf Hitler's empire, asks, especially engineers & technicians, is Speer so different from us? "How many of us would be willing to compartmentalize our emotions, suppress our consciences, almost to sell our souls, for the opportunity to work on the grand projects that Speer was involved in? How many of us are so focused on solving a technical problem that we fail to contemplate where that solution might lead?"