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Claudia Moscovici
Claudia Moscovici is the author of Velvet Totalitarianism, a novel about
a Romanian family's survival in an oppressive communist regime due to
the strength of their love. She also published several scholarly books
on political philosophy and the Romantic movement. Her publications
include Romanticism and Postromanticism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), Gender and Citizenship (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000) and Double Dialectics (Rowman and Littlefield,
2002). She taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston
University and at the University of Michigan. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she writes from her experience of life in a totalitarian regime, which marked her deeply. She immigrated to the United States where she has gone on to obtain a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Claudia lives in Ann Arbor, with her husband Dan and two children, Sophie and Alex. 
In 2002, she co-founded with Mexican sculptor Leonardo Pereznieto the
international aesthetic movement called “postromanticism” (see http://postromanticism.com/),
devoted to celebrating beauty, passion and sensuality in contemporary
art. She wrote a book on Romanticism and its postromantic survival
called Romanticism and Postromanticism,
(Lexington Books, 2007) and taught philosophy, literature and arts and
ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan.Most recently, she published a nonfiction book on psychopathic seduction, called Dangerous Liaisons (Hamilton Books, 2011) and a psychological thriller called The Seducer (forthcoming in March, 2012), which tells the story of a woman lured by a dangerous psychopathic predator.
"Velvet Totalitarianism,"
Claudia Moscovici's newly released novel, tells a moving tale of a family surviving difficult times in communist Romania due to the strength of their love.
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A deeply felt, deftly rendered novel of the utmost importance to any reader interested in understanding totalitarianism and its terrible human cost. Urgent, evocative, and utterly convincing, Velvet Totalitarianism is a book to treasure, and Claudia Moscovici is indeed a writer to watch, now and into the future.
--Travis Holland, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Archivist's Story, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
--Ken Kalfus, author of the novel A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006 National Book Award nominee), of The Commissariat of Enlightenment (2003) and of PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies (1999). (More)
Dangerous Liaisons: How to Recognize and Escape From Psychopathic Seduction - Hamilton Books 2011What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psyc
