Thomas Cahill, Author . Lipper/Viking $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-03057-6
Cahill uses the same felicitous prose and refreshing approach to history that characterized his bestselling books How the Irish Saved Civilization
and The Gifts of the Jews, here offering a short biography of John XXIII, the "people's pope&#
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Thomas Cahill, Author . Doubleday/Talese $27.50 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-49553-0
In this elegant introduction to Greek life and thought, Cahill provides the same majestic historical survey he has already offered for the Irish, the Jews and the Christians. He eloquently narrates the rise of Greek civilization and cannily isolates
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Thomas Cahill, Author . Doubleday/Talese $32.50 (343p) ISBN 978-0-385-49555-4
Cahill's latest engaging romp through pop intellectual history (after Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
) focuses, despite the subtitle, not on fringe cults, but on the mainstream of medieval Roman Catholic thought. Instead of obscurantist dogma, he...
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Thomas Cahill, Author . Doubleday/Talese $17.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-385-52019-5
“His face has the dignity of a Benin bronze.... His countenance is suffused with an aura... [of] goodness.” This is Cahill’s opening description of Dominique Green, whose life and death the bestselling author (How the Irish Saved...
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Thomas Cahill, Author Anchor Books $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-41848-5
With the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, Ireland, according to the author, ``had one moment of unblemished glory''-when Irish monks copied almost all of Western classical poetry, history, oratory, philosophy and commentary. But this...
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Thomas Cahill, Author Anchor Books $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-41849-2
An account of the pivotal role played by Irish monks in transcribing and preserving Classical civilization during the Dark Ages. (Mar.)
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Thomas Cahill, Author Nan A. Talese $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-48251-6
Cahill, no stranger to sweeping historical narratives (The Gifts of the Jews; How the Irish Saved Civilization), triumphs again with this imaginatively written account of Jesus and the early Christian Church. Cahill begins in the manner of most...
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Thomas Cahill. Doubleday, $30.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-49557-8
Between the late 15th century and the early 17th century, Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door, Henry VIII declared himself England’s supreme ruler, and Michelangelo created several masterpieces that still attract millions of tourists to...
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Thomas Cahill, Author, Olympia Dukakis, Read by , read by Olympia Dukakis. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0687-1
Dukakis makes an oddly fine match for this learned, accessible and occasionally glib survey of early Greek culture and its contributions to Western civilization. While her gruff Boston accent may seem like a strange match for a historical work, it...
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Thomas Cahill, Author, Thomas Cahill, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-73-933431-7
Cahill nimbly presents the highlights—and lowlights—of Europe during the Middle Ages in this well-executed romp through history. A skilled narrator of his own work, Cahill brings enthusiasm and passion to the story (especially when...
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