About the Author

Tad Szulc worked as foreign and diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times from 1955-1972, reporting from fifty countries, and he travelled extensively with Presidents Kennedy and Nixon and Pope Paul VI. Recent books include FIDEL, which won the Overseas Press Club Award, and CHOPIN IN PARIS. He lives in Washington D.C.

Reviews

Michael D. Schaffer"Tampa Tribune Times."Fascinating...a valuable study of a complex international leader, a thoroughly human man...Szulc is an ideal biographer for the Pope.

Steven England"Commonceal"The proliferation of fascinating evidence in Szulc's book runs the gamut from juicy tidbits...to major and astounding finds...