“There’s an exacting attention to language [in Wellman’s writing] that would seem exhausting if the works weren’t so mischievous, so exultant, so fun.”— The New York Times

The Offending Gesture is a humorous and poetic indictment of American foreign policy in Iraq, told through the true story of Hitler and his dog, Blondi. Wellman takes as his subject a political incident that occurred in 1941 just before Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Tor Borg, a Finnish businessman infamously taught his own dog Jackie to do the Nazi Party Salute in response to the command, “Heil Hitler.”

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