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

    Written by James Carroll

    Narrated by Mel Foster

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateMar 16, 2011
    ISBN9781452670805
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    James Carroll

    <P><B>James Carroll</B> was raised in Washington, D.C., and ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969. He served as a chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974, then left the priesthood to become a writer. A distinguished scholar- <BR>in-residence at Suffolk University, he is a columnist for the <I>Boston Globe</I> and a <BR>regular contributor to the Daily Beast. </P><P>His critically admired books include <I>Practicing Catholic</I>, the National Book Award–winning <I>An American Requiem</I>, <I>House of War</I>, which won the first PEN/Galbraith Award, and the <I>New York Times</I> bestseller <I>Constantine’s Sword</I>, now an acclaimed documentary. <BR>

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    • 4/5
      This is a very good book, but I ran out of time to read this library book. James Carroll writes well and this is a very engrossing story. Jerusalem has a history of violence and fierce competition for control, but as the subtitle states, it has "ignited our modern world."
    • 3/5
      Instead of history about Jerusalem, got long rambling mess of a book focusing on the nature of religions and violence. I suppose that may be my fault for not reading the subtitle thoroughly, but oh well. The book in itself was still somewhat interesting.

      As for the city itself, I may read Montefiore's new book, which is due to be released in October of this year.