The Pity of It All - by Amos Elon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists. In engaging, brilliantly etched portraits of Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and many others, Elon traces how a small minority came to be perceived as a deadly threat <br>to German national integrity.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Brilliant, far-reaching, passionate. . .sweeping and marvelously detailed. . .finely, intimately, movingly drawn. . . a book for the ages." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"[Elon] is a master of the telling anecdote. . ..One should be grateful for what Elon has done." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"A work packed with beautifully sketched portraits, and constructed with a practiced eye for memorable, well-executed anecdotes." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Impressive. . .Could hardly be improved upon." --<i>The New York Review of Books</i> <p/>"If there is one book Americans should read this winter, it is Amos Elon's <i>The Pity of It All--</i>a meticulous and wrenching history of a people in a place at a moment in time that bears urgently upon our own." --<i>Joan Didion, author of Political Fictions</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Amos Elon </b>is the author of eight widely praised books including <i>Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild</i>, and the<i> New York Times</i> bestseller<i> Israelis: Founders and Sons.</i> He was a frequent contributor to <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> and <i>The New York Review of Books.</i> He passed away in 2009.</p>
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