Thomas Cahill Author

Thomas Cahill is an author whose name opens up a long list of popular books those features in the top seller charts quite frequently. He is the author of the best-selling books, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, and most recently Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe.

Thomas Cahill is an author books are the best examples of reading complex history of different culture and era in a language and diction that is easily accessible, understood and also enjoyable at the same time. He has gained immense popularity through his books and lectures. He writes in a language that brings to life a wide range of cultures that existed even five millennia ago.

Thomas Cahill finely renovates the lives of his principal characters of different historical era with a unique insight and in a refreshing manner. His uniqueness lies in the fact that through his writing he welcomes the reader into an ancient world where he can get into a dialogue with the most influential people of the time. These five books comprise the epic series The Hinges of History, a prospective seven-volume series. Cahill in this series intends to trace the formative moments in Western civilization.

In accomplishing this goal Thomas Cahill has chosen the path of telling little-known stories of individuals who had key impacts on the making of history of the Western world. The discourse thus initiated strangely reveals the origin of our thinking and feeling and the path we took to become what we are today. How the Irish Saved Civilization tells the story was published in March of 1995. For almost two years it topped the chart on the New York Times Bestseller List.

It sold 1,250,000 copies in print, and was included into Western civilization college courses throughout the USA. In The Gifts of the Jews the author gave an insightful account of how Jews essentially invented Western civilization and shaped Western consciousness today. The Gifts of the Jews was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 39 weeks. In February 1999, Thomas Cahill received the Christopher Award for The Gifts of the Jews. Cahill