The positive reviews for Renee Winegarten’s Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography continue to pour in.

On the heels of Michael Dirda’s glowing review in the Washington Post Book World (June 8), which called attention to the “blazing life” of the two leads, Louis Auchincloss praised the book in the Wall Street Journal (June 23) as an “eloquent telling” in which its two subjects are “superbly captured.” And in the New York Sun (June 25), Adam Kirsch declared the book “fast-paced and entertaining” and “entertainingly scandalous.”

Set in the tumult of postrevolutionary France, Winegarten’s book examines the lives of its protagonists, two of Europe’s most distinguished writers, within the context of the historical period that fostered their unique intellectual and personal relationship. In turn, de Staël and Constant’s prodigious bond made great contributions to the developing “literature of liberty,” and Winegarten’s book offers readers a compelling portrait of, and an appreciation for, their impact.