Russell Shorto Bücher

Monika Niehaus-Osterloh, Diplom in Biologie, Promotion in Neuro- und Sinnesphysiologie, ist freiberuflich als Autorin, Journalistin und naturwissenschaftliche Übersetzerin (englisch/französisch) tätig. 2021 wurde sie mit dem Martin-Wieland-Übersetzerpreises ausgezeichnet. Russell Shorto wurde 1959 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, geboren. Er ist Schriftsteller und Journalist und schreibt unter anderem für „The New Yorker“, „The Miami Herald“ und „US Weekly“. Russell Shorto lebt mit seiner Frau und zwei Kindern in New York.

Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto's masterful biography looks at Amsterdam's central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siecle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it is still a city that takes individual freedom very seriously. A wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam's dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, Amsterdam is the definitive book on this great city.

With the skill of a seasoned journalist and the passion of an amateur sleuth, Russell Shorto offers a radical revision of the gospel story: a new composite of Jesus that is based on scientific research?and supported by some of our most conservative religious scholars. A vivid and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the life and times of Jesus, Gospel Truth will change the way we see Jesus forever

A fascinating intellectual adventure story from the acclaimed author of Amsterdam and The Island at the Center of the World.

Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America

With the skill of a seasoned journalist and the passion of an amateur sleuth, Russell Shorto offers a radical revision of the gospel story: a new composite of Jesus that is based on scientific research and supported by some of our most conservative religious scholars. A vivid and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the life and times of Jesus, Gospel Truth will change the way we see Jesus forever.

From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate intellectual history” (Wall Street Journal), “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune) and simply “astonishing” (New York Times). In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies to flesh out six lives that cast the era in a fresh new light. They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a rebellious young woman who abandoned her abusive husband to chart her own course and a certain Mr. Washington, who was admired for his social graces but harshly criticized for his often-disastrous military strategy. Through these lives we understand that the revolution was fought over the meaning of individual freedom, a philosophical idea that became a force for violent change. A powerful narrative and a brilliant defense of American values, Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today and that its ideals are worth defending.

In de zeventiende eeuw begon de emigratie vanuit Europa naar Amerika. De eerste stop voor veel Europeanen was Manhattan, een eiland met de functie van een pier in de oceaan. Alleen op het uiterste puntje woonden mensen, een bonte verzameling Noren, Duitsers, Italianen, Afrikanen, Bohemen en leden van indiaanse volken, in een door de Nederlanders gestichte nederzetting. De bewoners vonden een manier om samen te leven op de grens van chaos en orde, vrijheid en verdrukking. De Amerikaanse geschiedenis is geschreven door de Engelsen, in hun verhalen is bijzonder weinig ruimte voor de grote rol die de Lage Landen hebben gespeeld. In "Nieuw Amsterdam" wordt deze rol in een helder daglicht geplaatst. Russell Shorto toont aan hoe groot de invloed van die eerste jaren was op het huidige New York.