Peter Balakian is the author of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir and a New York Times Notable Book, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities.
"In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy." -- BooklistThe terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians." -- Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust"An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing." -- Kirkus Reviews"Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University"The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art." -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father"A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read." -- Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War"Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power." -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World"[A] fascinating and affecting memoir." -- New York Times Book Review"Richly imagined and carefully documented." -- The New Yorker"[An] engrossing and poignant memoir." -- San Francisco Chronicle"A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling." -- Forward
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