Charles King
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Charles King is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University where he teaches a popular course called ‘Ethnicity, Race, and Nation'. His many books include Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul, a 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, winner of a National Jewish Book Award in 2011. His writing has appeared in the TLS, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic and other publications.
Books by Charles King
The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever written
The riveting story of the intrepid women anthropologists who redefined race, sex, gender and normality in the early twentieth century.