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"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." - Vanity Fair "The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft," The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser is a fascinating account of a brazen and amazing criminal act - a book that could help police and investigators solve the mystery of the 1990 break-in and burglary at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. "A tantalizing whodunit" (Boston Globe) and a "riveting, wonderfully vivid account [that] takes you into the underworld of obsessed art detectives, con men, and thieves" (Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting), The Gardner Heist is true crime history at its most spellbinding.
About the Author
I'm a best-selling author and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. I just finished up a book that looks at the new science of learning. Titled "Learn Better," the book takes a broad look at how people can gain skills more effectively.
The book is deeply researched, and as part of my reporting, I took basketball lessons from a former Harlem Globetrotter, spent time with the nation's foremost ER room doctor, and profiled the man who used some of the recent learning research to dominate the game show Jeopardy.
I'm fortunate to have received some excellent early reviews. Publisher's Weekly called the book "engaging" and "thought-provoking," while author Walter Isaacson said the book was "alternately humorous, surprising, and profound."
Before the Center, I was a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. In February 2009, HarperCollins published my book The Gardner Heist, which examines the 1990 theft of a dozen masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
I can be reached at ulrich @ ulrichboser.com.
