"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." --Bernard Avishai
"Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." --Michael Marrus
"Other biographers . . . have illuminated aspects of Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce the kind of intellectual biography that we have here. Jacques Kornberg has done an admirable job of plumbing the depths of Herzl's...