The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response - Softcover

Balakian, Author Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060558709 ISBN 13: 9780060558703

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

Title: The Burning Tigris( The Armenian Genocide and America's Response) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: PeterBalakian <>Publisher: HarperPerennial

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Review:

"Richly imagined and carefully documented." -- The New Yorker

"[An] engrossing and poignant memoir." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] fascinating and affecting memoir." -- New York Times Book Review

"A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling."--Forward

"A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read."--Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

"[A] fascinating and affecting memoir."--New York Times Book Review

"Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power."--Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World

"The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art."--James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father

"Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue."--Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University

"In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy."--Booklist

About the Author:

Peter Balakian is the author of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir and a New York Times Notable Book, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060558709
• ISBN 13: 9780060558703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528