![]() Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political naïveté, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia. In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert K. The story of the love that ended an empire. While president of the Guild, he called on authors to boycott any store refusing to carry Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. He was the president of the Authors Guild from 1987-91, and currently serves as an ex officio council member. In 1995, in his book The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Massie updated Nicholas and Alexandra with much newly discovered information. In 1971 the book was the basis of an Academy Award-winning film of the same title. In 1967 Massie wrote and published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra, a biography of Nicholas II and Alexandra of Hesse, the last Emperor and Empress of Russia. ![]() Massie worked as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959-62 then at the Saturday Evening Post. ![]() He studied United States and European history at Yale and Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613 to 1917. Robert Kinloch Massie III (born 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and biographer. ![]() , xvii,, 584, pages., illus., endpaper maps, occasional footnotes, genealogy, notes, bibliography, index, some soiling fore-edge, DJ soiled, worn, with edge tears/chips. ![]()
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