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Biography

Green is the son of the

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and writer Benny Green and actress

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, and the brother of

and BBC Radio presenter Leo Green. He read English Literature at

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. Subsequently, he read for an AM in Jewish Studies at

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, and a PhD in Comparative History at

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, where he was the Mandel Fellow in the Humanities.

Author

Green is the author of a biography of his father, ''Benny Green: Words and Music'' (2000), and editor of the collection ''Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz'' (2001). His first history book, ''The Double Life of Dr. Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I'' (2003) was described in ''

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'' of London as 'popular history at its best'. Green's second history book, ''Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad 1869-1899'' (2007; UK title ''Armies of God'') was acclaimed in media as varied as ''Foreign Affairs'' and ''Entertainment Weekly''. In 2022, Green wrote ''The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898'' which was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Political and social commentary

Green writes political and social commentary for the US edition of ''

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''. Green's opinion pieces include frequent criticism of

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's policies and victory "on points" in the

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, Green criticised the

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for failing to act quickly enough.

Television

*''Queen Elizabeth's Secret Agents'' (BBC/PBS, 2017); nominated for a Royal Television Society award, 2018.

Bibliography

* ''Benny Green: Words and Music'', London, London House, 2000, , 252p. * ''The Double Life of Doctor Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I'', London, Century, 2003, , 402p. **Paperback reprint: Arrow Books Ltd., 2004, *''Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1898'', Free Press, January 2007, , 304p. (also known as "Armies of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899") * Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022

Edited

* ''Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz'', Simon & Schuster, 2001,

References

External links

*
Q&A: Dominic Green
'' The Collegian'', 2023 {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Dominic 1970 births Living people Alumni of St John's College, Oxford English jazz guitarists English male guitarists English people of Russian-Jewish descent 21st-century British guitarists 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians Brandeis University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni The Spectator editors The Daily Telegraph people The Wall Street Journal people