Nicholas Brown and the Roman revolution of 1848, free pdf download

Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations publishes David Kertzer's article on "The Enduring Controversy over the Mortara Case"

On March 6, Public Radio International's "The World" airs extended interview with David Kertzer on the significance of the opening of Pius XII's archives

The Atlantic publishes Kertzer's critique of Pope Francis's March 4 announcement of the opening of the archives of controversial Pope Pius XII

Wall Street Journal praises The Pope Who Would be King

The Pope Who Would Be King named one of the seven best nonfiction books of 2018 in the Seattle Times

The New Yorker praises The Pope Who Would be King as "riveting" and "lively"

Weekly Standard Reviews The Pope Who Would Be King

On May 4th The Weekly Standard published a review of The Pope Who Would Be King. From the review: "Kertzer deftly sets the Roman scene and extracts a captivating narrative from the standard 1848 labyrinth of conspiracy, illusion, heroism, and ineptitiude. This is a book not only for Italophiles but for anyone interested in the way Europe backed into modernity." For the entire review, click here. 

After the NPR Fresh Air interview, The Pope Who Would Be King becomes the #1 best seller in European History and the History of Christianity on Amazon, coinciding with its publication day.

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Find the NPR interview and transcript on NPR's website here. 

David Kertzer questions the accuracy of translations and renditions of Edgardo Mortara's memoir in The Atlantic

On Sunday, April 15th, The Atlantic published "The Doctored 'Memoir' of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican."  The article, in which Kertzer questions the accuracy of the text and translations of Edgardo Mortara's autobiography, can be found here.