Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages." Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner" was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. "Young Stalin "won the Los Angeles Times""Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la biographie politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
"It's a wonderful book . . . [Montefiore] really tries to tell you
what the life of the city has been like . . . why it means so much
to everyone and why it's so spectacular. You fall in love with the
city and it breaks your heart that people can't make peace over it,
because it's a treasure."
--President Bill Clinton, #1 holiday book pick on the Today
Show
"Magnificent . . . The city's first 'biography'--a panoptic
narrative of its rulers and citizens, heroes and villains, harlots
and saints . . . Montefiore barely misses a trick or a character in
taking us through the city's story with compelling, breathless
tension."
--Norman Lebrecht, "Wall Street Journal"
"Impossible to put down . . . A vastly enjoyable chronicle [with]
many fascinating asides . . . Montefiore has a fine eye for the
telling detail, and also a powerful feel for a good story."
--Jonathan Rosen, "New York Times Book Review"
"This is a fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem,
utterly compelling from start to finish."
--Christopher Hart, "Sunday Times "(UK)
"Immensely readable . . . Montefiore is that rarest of things: a
historian who writes great, weighty tomes that read like the best
thrillers . . . He has a visceral understanding of what makes
history worth reading."
--Philip Kerr, "Newsweek"
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"Ambitious and arresting ." . ." A powerful achievement, erudite
without pedantry, and intimate with the complex archaeology of the
city on the ground. In the matter of competing faiths, it is all
but pitch-perfect . . . "Jerusalem: The Biography" is a
double-headed book: at once a scholarly record and an exuberantly
written popular tour de force."
--Colin Thubron, "New York Review of Books
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"Sweeping and absorbing . . . Montefiore is a master of colorful
and telling details and anecdotes . . . His account is admirably
dispassionate and balanced."
--Jackson Diehl, "Washington Post Book World""
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"Magnificent . . . The city's first 'biography'--a panoptic
narrative of its rulers and citizens, heroes and villains, harlots
and saints . . . Montefiore barely misses a trick or a character in
taking us through the city's story with compelling, breathless
tension."
--Norman Lebrecht, "Wall Street Journal"
"Impossible to put down . . . A vastly enjoyable chronicle [with]
many fascinating asides . . . Montefiore has a fine eye for the
telling detail, and also a powerful feel for a good story."
--Jonathan Rosen, "New York Times Book Review"
"This is a fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem,
utterly compelling from start to finish."
--Christopher Hart, "Sunday Times "(UK)
"Immensely readable . . . Montefiore is that rarest of things: a
historian who writes great, weighty tomes that read like the best
thrillers . . . He has a visceral understanding of what makes
history worth reading."
--Philip Kerr, "Newsweek""
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