Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

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By Robert E. Lerner *64

Published Nov. 3, 2016

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton University Press) is the first complete biography of the influential German-American intellectual who wrote The King’s Two Bodies. Robert E. Lerner *64 tells about Kantorowicz’s days as a soldier in World War I, speaking out against the Nazis in Germany, and his time in the United States.

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