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Jim Cullen: Review of Robert K. Massie's "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" (Random House, 2011)
Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN.
He is completing a study of Hollywood actors as historians slated for publication by Oxford University Press later this year.
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Cullen blogs at American History Now.
As someone with little knowledge of 18th century Russian history, I picked up (more accurately, I downloaded) this 600-page book for two reasons. The first is that I wanted to experience the work of a master popular historian at the height of his (octogenarian) powers.
The second is that I wanted to gain a better grasp of American history by having a fuller sense of global context. I was rewarded on both counts.
Robert K. Massie first rose to fame a half-century ago on the strength of his Pulitzer-Prize winning dual biography Nicholas and Alexandra (1966), the basis of a successful 1971 movie.