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Title: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Subtitle: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
Author: James Carroll
Narrator: Mel Foster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-15-11
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes
Genres: History, Ancient
Publisher's Summary:
In James Carroll's provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible's brutality responded to the violence that threatened Jerusalem from the start. Centuries later, the mounting European fixation on a heavenly Jerusalem sparked both anti-Semitism and racist colonial contempt. The holy wars of the Knights Templar burned apocalyptic mayhem into the Western mind.
Carroll's brilliant and original leap is to show how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalem-centric worldview to the West, America too was powerfully shaped by the dream of the City on a Hill - from Governor Winthrop to Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan. The nuclear brinksmanship of the 1973 Yom Kippur War helps prove his point: religion and violence fuel each other, with Jerusalem the ground zero of the heat.
Critic Reviews:
"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, Contributing Editor, Daily Beast; Middle East analyst for CBS News)
