Martin Sieff reviews Michael S. Rose's Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger, in the Washington Times:
Michael Rose's deceptively slim but solidly researched, documented, and robustly argued book, coming hard on the heels of Benedict XVI's election to the Throne of St. Peter, comes as a rapid and welcome corrective to dispel so many hostile, wildly inaccurate, and even contemptible clichés.
Like the religious leader it celebrates, this book does not indulge in any cheap sentimentality but is both substantive and admirable.