200:, Stille considered how people relate to history in a constantly evolving world. "Trying to show the double-edged nature of technological change in a series of different contexts and from a number of odd angles," he studied subjects as varied as historical monuments in Egypt, China, and Italy, environmental preservation efforts in India and Madagascar, and repositories of collective knowledge including the Vatican Library and the U.S. National Archives. An open-ended meditation on historical memory, Stille "chose to avoid arguing a particular thesis," which may explain reviewer Michiko Kakutani's evaluation of the work as "fascinating but helter-skelter," a "book in which the parts are much more interesting than the whole."
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235:(2013), a work supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship that also won the 2014 Blake-Dodd Prize for Nonfiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Stille turned his investigative reporting skills to his own family and produced a book that is part memoir, part dual biography of his parents--his journalist father, "a refugee of two countries" who had fled both the Russian Revolution and Italian fascism, and his mother with her "midwestern, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" background. As Michiko Kakutani assessed it in the
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Italian Jews" during the period of fascist rule entailed "a strange mixture of benevolence and betrayal, persecution and rescue" that distinguished it from most of the rest of Europe. As Herbert Mitgang concluded in the
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as one of the best books of 1992. In this work, Stille recounts the histories of several
Italian families to explore the "paradoxical quality of Jewish life in fascist Italy--a highly tolerant country that suddenly embraced anti-Semitism, the chief ally of Nazi Germany, which had staunchly refused to
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praised Stille for having "exquisitely analyzed not only contemporary
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239:, Stille's portrayal of his parents' "distressing tale of marital woe becomes a fascinating psychological study of two people with complicated family pasts, trying to forge identities of their own--two people with utterly different views and experiences of history."
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