Our “Holiday From History” Is Over | Simon Sebag Montefiore

Watch the full episode: https://thefp.pub/42E5WWj Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3Q0EVoy Simon Sebag Montefiore is one of the most important historians alive today. His many books, like "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," "The Romanovs," and "Catherine the Great & Potemkin" are essential to understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and above all, human nature. While most of Sebag Montefiore’s books are biographies of people, Jerusalem is a biography of a city—one that is “the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and she is the only city to exist twice—in heaven and on earth.” The book takes you through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history, from King David to Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. It is a must-read. It has sold more than a million copies, and it has just been reissued in paperback. With the ceasefire deal underway in Israel and with Donald Trump a few weeks into his second presidency, we could not think of a better person to talk to at this moment.