Reappraisals
Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes
We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has…
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March 31, 2009
Tony Judt (1948-2010) was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New University and the director of the Remarque Institute, which he founded in 1995. Among other books, Judt was the author of Thinking the Twentieth Century, The Memory Chalet, When the Facts Change (edited by Jennifer Homans), Reappraisals, and Postwar, which was one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2005 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
When the Facts Change
Tony Judt; Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans
The Modern Classics Plague
Albert Camus; Foreward by Tony Judt; Translated by Tony Judt and Robin Buss
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
The Memory Chalet
Tony Judt
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt; preface by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Reappraisals
Tony Judt