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The New Yorker praises The Pope Who Would be King as "riveting" and "lively"

“The Pope Who Would Be King,” A Timely Study of Turmoil in the Church

https://www.newyorker.com/recommends/read/the-pope-who-would-be-king-a-timely-study-of-turmoil-in-the-church

In London, on September 25, the short list for the Cundill History Prize for 2018, described as the richest history book prize in the world, was announced, with Kertzer's The Pope Who Would be King, among the short-listed titles

https://www.cundillprize.com/

In a glowing review, the UK's Catholic Herald praises The Pope Who Would be King

"Kertzer is a fine historian who understands the importance of narrative drive and in Pius IX he has a wonderfully dramatic story to tell." The review can also be found on davidkertzer.com.

Seattle Times book review praises Kertzer's The Pope Who Would be King as "rock-solid history, with enough intrigue and double-dealing to compete with any Robert Harris thriller.

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/a-botanist-a-pope-and-a-princess-three-new-biographies/

Conference in Udine, Italy, May 29

Weekly Standard Reviews The Pope Who Would Be King

On May 4th The Weekly Standard published a review of The Pope Who Would Be King. From the review: "Kertzer deftly sets the Roman scene and extracts a captivating narrative from the standard 1848 labyrinth of conspiracy, illusion, heroism, and ineptitiude. This is a book not only for Italophiles but for anyone interested in the way Europe backed into modernity." For the entire review, click here. 

Following the NPR Fresh Air interview by Terry Gross with David Kertzer on the book's publication day, The Pope Who Would Be King becomes the #1 best seller in both European History and the History of Christianity on Amazon.

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Find the NPR interview and transcript on NPR's website. 

 

 

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post ran articles about David Kertzer's discovery that the book presented as Edgardo Mortara's Memoir was actually altered from the original and differs in systematic ways from it.

Read "Key Findings in Analysis of Memoir of a Jew Raised Catholic," published on April 20th in both the New York Times and Washington Post.

 

 

 

David Kertzer questions the accuracy of translations and renditions of Edgardo Mortara's memoir in The Atlantic

On Sunday, April 15th, The Atlantic published "The Doctored 'Memoir' of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican."  The article, in which Kertzer questions the accuracy of the text in and translations of Edgardo Mortara's autobiography, can be found here.

Image Credit: James Baillie / Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters / The Atlantic  

David Kertzer is interviewed about Italian elections on Trending Globally podcast

Brown Professor Mark Blyth interviews David Kertzer on Trending Globally, the international politics podcast from the Watson Institute at Brown University.