"More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West."
-Robert C. Tucker, Professor of Russian Politics, Princeton University

"A superb biography."
-Publisher's Weekly, December 11, 1995

"The story of a particular man and time, but also a finely drawn portrait of a writer and his conscience under siege in a place where the ill-chosen word could lead to exile or death."
-Kirkus reviews, December 15, 1995.

"A fascinating portrait."
-Library Journal, February 15, 1996.

"Well-written, meticulously researched . . . In the awful compromises he had to make in order to survive, Ehrenburg is very much a man of Europe's 20th century. Did the good he did outweigh the lies he had to tell? This thoughtful and engaging account of his life should remind us how seldom most Americans have had to confront such choices."
-Jane Taubman, Professor of Russian at Amherst College, in The Boston Globe, March 24, 1996.

". . . succeeds in presenting Ehrenburg's life against a panorama of historic events. It also helps us discern the baffling ironies of Ehrenburg's career. The book's chief value, however, lies in Mr. Rubenstein's deliberate refraining from unequivocal judgment. He clearly means to convey his subject in all his complexity rather than offering wholesale absolution or damnation."
-Stanislaw Baranczak, Professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard, in The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1996.

"A masterpiece of painstaking scholarship."
-Washington Jewish Week, April 11, 1996.