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Enthralling. --USA Today Gripping. --The New York Times Book Review Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman has it all: jealous mothers, indulgent eccentrics, greedy social climbers, intrigue, infidelity, murder, political coups, sex, war and passion. --Bookreporter Exhaustively researched and dramatically narrated. --The Boston Globe [Robert K. Massie] brings great authority to this sweeping account of Catherine and her times. . . . a compelling read. --The Washington Post Meticulously, dramatically rendered. --O: The Oprah Magazine Reads like an epic Russian novel. --San Antonio Express-News Will transport history lovers. -- People Massie makes Catherine's story dramatic and immediate. --The Kansas City Star Graceful and engrossing. --Minneapolis Star Tribune A biography as captivating as its subject. -- MacLean's

Enthralling. USA Today Gripping. The New York Times Book Review Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman has it all: jealous mothers, indulgent eccentrics, greedy social climbers, intrigue, infidelity, murder, political coups, sex, war and passion. Bookreporter Exhaustively researched and dramatically narrated. The Boston Globe [Robert K. Massie] brings great authority to this sweeping account of Catherine and her times. . . . a compelling read. The Washington Post Meticulously, dramatically rendered. O: The Oprah Magazine Reads like an epic Russian novel. San Antonio Express-News Will transport history lovers. People Massie makes Catherine s story dramatic and immediate. The Kansas City Star Graceful and engrossing. Minneapolis Star Tribune A biography as captivating as its subject. MacLean s

Enthralling. --USA Today <br> <br> Gripping. --The New York Times Book Review <br> <br> Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman has it all: jealous mothers, indulgent eccentrics, greedy social climbers, intrigue, infidelity, murder, political coups, sex, war and passion. --Bookreporter<br> <br> Exhaustively researched and dramatically narrated. --The Boston Globe <br> <br> [Robert K. Massie] brings great authority to this sweeping account of Catherine and her times. . . . a compelling read. --The Washington Post <br> <br> Meticulously, dramatically rendered. --O: The Oprah Magazine <br> <br> Reads like an epic Russian novel. --San Antonio Express-News <br> <br> Will transport history lovers. -- People <br> <br> Massie makes Catherine's story dramatic and immediate. --The Kansas City Star <br> <br> Graceful and engrossing. --Minneapolis Star Tribune <br> <br> A biography as captivating as its subject. -- MacLean's

What Catherine the Great offers is a great story in the hands of a master storyteller. -The Wall Street Journal Dense and detailed, enriched by pages of full-color illustrations, Massie's latest will transport history lovers. -People What a woman, what a world, what a biography. -USA Today [Massie] hasn't lost his mojo. . . . A consistently nimble and buoyant performance. . . . [Massie] has always been a biographer with the instincts of a novelist. He understands plot-fate-as a function of character, and the narrative perspective he establishes and maintains, a vision tightly aligned with that of his subject, convinces a reader he's not so much looking at Catherine the Great as he is out of her eyes. . . . Juicy and suspenseful. -Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review A meticulously, dramatically rendered biography. -O: The Oprah Magazine [A] rich, nuanced examination of Russia's lone female leader. -The Daily Beast What a woman! -Elle Massie once again delivers a masterful, intimate, and tantalizing portrait of a majestic monarch. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) [A] meticulously detailed work about Catherine and her world. . . . Massie makes Catherine's story as gripping as that of any novel. His book does full justice to a complex and fascinating woman and to the age in which she lived. -Historical Novels Review

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Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography), The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Robert K. Massie died in 2019.

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