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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
Category: Non-Fiction
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America - ...Show more
Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
Category: Non-Fiction
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re ...Show more
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
Category: Military
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another ...Show more
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 by Tony Judt
Category: History
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt provides ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Professor of History Tony Judt (King's College, Cambridge New York University New York University)
Category: Biography
Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. Tony Judt's "The Memory Chalet" is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. J ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
Category: History
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to ha ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: Non-Fiction
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: History
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." (Los Angeles Times)One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original h ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: History
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. Th ...Show more
When the Facts Change: Essays 1995 - 2010 by Tony Judt
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of es ...Show more