RonRosenbaum.com
August 23rd, 2006 4:21 pm

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Ron Rosenbaum was born in Manhattan and grew up in Bay Shore, Long Island. He graduated with a degree in English literature from Yale and spent a year at Yale Graduate Schoool before leaving to become a writer full time, beginning at The Village Voice and Esquire.


His journalism and essays have since appeared in many periodicals including Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Many of these are collected in %%AMAZON=0060934468 The Secret Parts of Fortune%%.

He spent ten years investigating the attempts by post war historians, biographers, philosphers and theologians to account for Hitler’s evil which resulted in %%AMAZON=006095339X Explaining Hitler%%

In 2004, he edited an anthology of essays on anti-semitism, %%AMAZON=0812972051 Those Who Forget the Past%%.

His new book is %%AMAZON=0375503390 The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups%% (RandomHouse, 2006).

He was co writer on the PBS/Frontline documentary, “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero”.

He lives in New York where he writes a bi-weekly column on cultural questions for The New York Observer.

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book cover BUY The Shakespeare Wars
Random House, September 2006


Electrifying. A spectacular book. —Cynthia Ozick


…a thrilling personal confrontation…The Shakespeare Wars comes to us in waves of new revelations —Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate


Acclaimed journalist Ron Rosenbaum wrestles with the weightiest issues of Shakespeare studies in a down-to-earth manner that readers will applaud. —Publisher’s Weekly


Cultural journalism of the highest order. —Kirkus Reviews


Timely not least for the economy and clarity with which he outlines the casus belli…with Rosenbaum’s dispatches we now have a better sense of what the fuss is about. —John Sutherland, The Financial Times
book cover BUY Explaining Hitler
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time. —David Remnick A work of importance and fascination. —George Steiner, the [U.K.] Observer A provacative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart..Mr. Rosenbaum has made an important contribution to our understanding not just of Hitler, but of the cultural processes by which we try to come to terms with history as well… He has written an exciting, lucid book. —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Intriguing, thought provoking and intelligent. —Ian Kershaw in The Guardian [U.k.] Brilliant…restlessly probing and deeply intelligent. —Lance Morrow, Time In Explaining Hitler, profound historical questions spring urgently and hauntingly to life. —Sam Tanenhaus Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history —Marc Fisher The Washington Post
book cover BUY The Secret Parts of Fortune
Ron Rosenbaum is one of the great masters of the metaphysical detective story, a nonfiction writer in the spirit of Borges, Nabokov and Poe. —Errol Morris (director of The Fog of War) Few journalists inspire the kind of cult following that Rosenbaum has —Scott McLemee Newsday I plan on hanging Ron Rosenbaum’s ‘marriage proposal’ [column] in a prominent place. Should my husband begin to take me for granted, he will be reminded that I am not without options. —Rosanne Cash You made me look like a f_____g lunatic. —Oliver Stone ALSO AVAILABLE (an anthology of others’ work): Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism Bi-weekly Spectator columnist at Slate

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