Ashes to Ashes (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

“A great battleship of a book—formidable, majestic … armed with an abundance of revealing information, guided with discerning literary skill…. Mr. Kluger invites one to admire these moguls of tobacco the way one appreciates, say, Lenin—as brilliant strategists and resourceful technicians … single-minded in their determination to satisfy [a mass want] and heedless of the human cost of their profit making. A behind-the-scenes history of an industry whose structure, power, and growing vulnerability are so richly illuminated by this monumental and timely book.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Ashes to Ashes is] monumental … elegantly written…. It will probably be the definitive volume of the subject of cigarettes in the 20th century.” —Time Magazine

“Lively, entertaining, awesomely comprehensive…. The quality ofKluger’s work astonishes throughout: He actually persuaded many top tobacco executives to talk with him…. Getting the kind of good stuff Kluger pulls together is just about miraculous.” —The Washington Post

Richard Kluger began a career in journalism at The Wall Street Journal, and was a writer for Forbes magazine and then the New York Post before becoming literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune during its final years. In book publishing he served as executive editor at Simon and Schuster, and editor-in-chief at Atheneum. A fulltime writer since 1974, he is the author of two other works of social history—Simple Justice, an account of the epochal 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation, and The Paper, on the life and death of the Herald Tribune; each was nominated for the National Book Award. The best known of his six novels are Members of the Tribe and The Sheriff of Nottingham. Kluger and his wife, Phyllis, who have two sons and have written two novels together, live near Princeton, New Jersey.

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