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    My Brother Death
    My Brother Death
    My Brother Death
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    My Brother Death

    By Cyrus Sulzberger

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    This remarkable book by the distinguished journalist Cyrus Sulzberger is in a modern sense comparable to Burton’s famous The Anatomy of Melancholy.

    My Brother Death is a thoughtful and finely written effort to discern just what death is, to define both it and its relationship to man, to discuss how to meet its inevitable approach and what may lie beyond.

    To accomplish this purpose Mr. Sulzberger draws heavily from the history of human thought and experience, from all the principal religions of East and West; from the philosophers, saints, kings and heroes who one by one have crossed to the unknown.

    He documents and dramatizes the entire panorama of the ways in which men die: by acts curiously attributed to the God of disaster, pestilence, famine and illness; by man’s own hand in murder, war, cannibalism, capital punishment and religious persecution.

    How does death approach and how and why do the brave best prepare to meet it? Not only does the author introduce the reader to the reflections of outstanding men upon their final des tiny; he himself has spent many years contemplating this problem which is everyone’s secret concern. He has personally investigated death on many battlefields and on all seven continents of this earth.

    By these investigations and by his own deep study of history, philosophy and the dimly remembered customs of our atavistic past, he has assembled a fascinating and, in a sense, comforting picture of human courage, a courage that triumphs over human evil.

    This sad but lovely tale of eternity and our own role in its embrace begins appropriately on a happy little Greek island. It ends there, aeons later, among “the soft Aegean waters that bear me northward and backward into time.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuriwai Books
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9781787208889
    My Brother Death
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    Cyrus Sulzberger

    Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (October 27, 1912 - September 20, 1993) was an American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. He was a member of the family that owned The New York Times and he was that newspaper’s lead foreign correspondent during the 1940s and 1950s. Born in New York City in 1912, his father was Cyrus Leo Sulzberger I and his brother was Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1934. Cy, as he was commonly called, joined the family paper in 1939 and was soon covering stories oversea as Europe edged toward World War II. He served as a foreign affairs correspondent for 40 years and wrote two dozen books in his lifetime. In 1942 Sulzberger married Marina Tatiana Ladas, who often accompanied him on his travels, and the couple led an active social life in Paris. They had two children: David Alexis Sulzberger and Marina Beatrice Sulzberger. Because of the circles he traveled in, he sometimes carried messages from one foreign leader to another; for U.S. President John F. Kennedy he conveyed a note to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Of all the leaders he befriended, it is said that he was closest to President Charles de Gaulle of France. Sulzberger won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1951. He died in Paris in 1993, aged 80.

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