The тАЬepic and stirring storyтАЭ of 4,000 years of JudaismтАФtold by a #1 New York TimesтАУbestselling author (Jewish Quarterly).
From their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses to the kings David and Solomon through the Diaspora and the unthinkable horror of the HolocaustтАФand culminating in the founding of the state of IsraelтАФthis is the sweeping tale of the Jews. Howard Fast, author of the classic Spartacus, displays his gift for compelling narrative throughout this eminently readable and well-researched saga.
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In FastтАЩs telling, truth is stranger, and more inspiring, than fiction. тАЬHere, I decided, was one of the most exciting and romantic adventures in all the history of mankind,тАЭ he explains in his introduction. тАЬIt had a continuity that spanned most of recorded history. It was filled with drama, passion, tragedy, and faith; and with all due reverence for the scholars, it pleaded for a storyteller to tell it as a story, indeed as the story of all stories.тАЭ
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FastтАЩs accomplishment is required reading not only for lovers of great literature but also for anyone interested in the march of civilization. Barry Holtz, the editor of The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books hails The Jews as тАЬan exciting and pleasurable [introduction] to a four-thousand-year epic.тАЭ
┬аThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the authorтАЩs estate.