James Carroll, Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

Start: 04/28/2011 7:00 pm

"What a remarkable book! I was blown away by the breadth and depth of it. Another hugely important book from James Carroll, right there with Constantine’s Sword."
Reza Aslan, author of No god but God

"A gripping account of how Jerusalem has fired the spiritual imagination of the West from Biblical times to the present--and a deeply personal meditation on the religious impulse itself, and its dark double, sacred violence. More than a rebuke to jihadists and religious extremists, this book challenges secularists who believe that, for modern Western societies, wars of religion are a thing of the past."
Michael Sandel, author of Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do?

James Carroll’s critically admired books include Practicing Catholic, the National Book Award-winning An American Requiem, House of War, which won the first PEN/Galbraith Award, and the New York Times bestseller Constantine’s Sword, now an acclaimed documentary. He is a Boston Globe columnist, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.