Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

"A lively and authoritative text, which should endear Kantorowicz to many historians of the present day. . . . Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life is a deeply informed and profoundly considered work that should take its place proudly among the other biographies of notable figures brought out by Princeton University Press."---BookPleasures.com,

"Lerner adds much to our understanding of Kantorowicz’s works, and these intellectual history aspects of the biography are its greatest strength."---Jonathan R. Lyon, German History

"There is much in the biography that is superb--the opulence of detail, the thumbnail sketches of those involved in Kantorowicz’s life, the marvelous analysis of several of Kantorowicz’s writings, the capsule contextualizations of historical moments such as the loyalty oath controversy in Berkeley, and above all the way it portrays the cross-cultural tapestry of intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century. This is a beautiful book and a major contribution."---Richard Hyland, The American Journal of Comparative Law

"Lerner's biography is worthy of great praise, and it is very unlikely that it will ever be superseded."---Walter Laqueur, Jewish Review of Books

"The extraordinary story of Kantorowicz's passage from Posen to Princeton via California is admirably told by Robert E. Lerner, and he has undoubtedly written the biography of record."---Hamish Robinson, The Oldie