“Hillel Halkin has done a superb job in responding to these challenges in what is, in my view, his best book.”

“…an artfully written art biography that captures its subject in the same kaleidoscopic palette as Chagall painted.”

“Mr. Century’s strong narrative line and his interviews with Ross’s now aged younger brother help to snatch the sweet scientist with the cast iron chin from the waters of oblivion.”

“Barney Ross” is an intense biography. In barely 200 pages, Century has condensed all the essential information about tough kid Beryl Rasofsky, a Kohen (rabbinical royalty) who, in other eras, would have be destined for the Talmud.”

“It is good to have Douglas Century’s brief but informative biography…Not merely was Ross one of the prominent American Jews of his day, but he was the most prominent Jewish boxer in the 1920s and ’30s.”

“It is not often that a modern biography ennobles not only its subject but the genre itself, but this is exactly what Mr. Century has accomplished, crafting a narrative as unsparing and inspiring as its subject.”

“Wilson (A Palestine Affair) is an incisive, lively writer.”

“This is an excellent story of a man and his times. And proof positive that time does not relinquish its hold over men or monuments.”

“…a wonderfully easy read and sums up a long and complicated life.”

“Esther Schor’s intelligent, passionate and deeply sympathetic literary biography argues that Lazarus is a vitally important — even prophetic — writer, ‘more of our time than her own.’”