Description
Book SynopsisCharles King is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His numerous books include the
New York Times bestseller
The Reinvention of Humanity (published in the US as
Gods of the Upper Air)
, which was winner of The Francis Parkman Prize and shortlisted for the British Academy Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award;
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul; and
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, which was winner of a National Jewish Book Award. His writing has appeared in the
TLS,
New York Times,
Washington Post,
Foreign Affairs,
The New Republic and other publications.
