Thinking small

The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include the Nazi dictator who personified evil, the legendary designer of Germany’s most celebrated race cars and the Jewish advertising executive who pioneered a creative revolution on Madison Avenue. It’s a story whose twists and turns over four decades eventually gave rise to the oddly shaped compact car that came to symbolize America’s 1960s counterculture and went on to become the world’s top-selling car model. Author Andrea Hiott transports readers through the most turbulent decades of the 20th…