A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians.
Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University; in addition to Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of sixty-two.
Witty, profound, controversial... Wonderfully
written... A wellspring of enlightenment you need to spend
time with -- Peter Preston * Observer *
Tony Judt, had a wonderful prose style, and his little book
The Memory Chalet, a collection of autobiographical essays, is
beautiful and moving. Although Judt, who suffered from motor
neurone disease, died earlier this year, this late work is more
sustaining than sad -- John Banville * Guardian, Books of the Year
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Quintessentail Judt: humane, fearless, unsparingly honest *
Financial Times *
The book is simultaneously awe-inspiring and almost too painful
to bear... His head, that of a great historian, political writer
and charismatic intellectual, was a treasure house -- Diana
Athill * Literary Review *
A book to treasure... Witty, profound, contraversial * Observer *
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