"Eye-opening... French historian Johann Chapoutot traces an astonishing continuity: from the social Darwinism of the Victorian age, to modern supermarket logistics, via the Nazis."–The Sunday Telegraph
"Refreshingly tart...Free to Obey's evidence of how Nazism has inspired our work culture is as relevant as the media's concern for the rise of neo-Nazi groups."–Bill Marx, The Arts Fuse
"If you have ever detected the acrid smell of sulfur while encountering 'management speak' you are not alone."–Brad, Island Books, Mercer Island, WA
"A groundbreaking essay."–El País
"A brilliant, stereotype defying study."–Les Temps
"The extraordinary, harrowing story of the Nazi roots of our work culture."–Marianne
"Johann Chapoutot is one of the great historians of Nazism. Time and again, his work has shown that the Third Reich was not an accidental aberration of history."–France Culture
"A fascinating essay about the second life of Reinhard Höhn–from one of the Third Reich's most brilliant legal minds to the founder of Germany's leading postwar business school."–Le Figaro Magazine