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Critical Praise

"Feiler persuasively and entertainingly chronicles how Moses as action hero, Moses as role model has affected virtually every level of American society....Fascinating and thought-provoking."

Booklist, starred review

"This is one of the most original, intelligent and endlessly fascinating books I have read in years: it should become a set book for anyone wanting to know what truly makes America tick."

—Simon Winchester

"With a journalist eye and an adventurers spirit, Bruce Feiler brings his prodigious gifts of biblical analysis to a reconsideration of Moses as the essential prophet of the American Experience. This is an accessible and engaging book of indispensible insight."

—Tony Horwitz

"Intriguing."

Washington Post