Elie Wiesel "From the Kingdom of Memory".

In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation", Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful at the trial of German Nazi murderer Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that "the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil."

The term Holocaust, derived from a Greek word meaning "burnt offering", has become the most common word used to describe the German Nazi extermination of Jews.

New book. Dedication with a brief personal message. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing. Otherwise, book in very good visual and excellent technical condition.