A great thinker''s final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century that feels all the more potent and important in today-s political climate.
Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans.
Tony Judt-s widow and fellow historian, Jennifer Homans, has gathered together important essays from the span of Judt-s career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the remarkable consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual -n.
Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country-s Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Tony Judt-s work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty, intellectual brilliance, and ethical clarity.
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