- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407006659
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
Reappraisals
Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407006659
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
A superb collection of essays
Daily Telegraph
An exhilarating new collection of essays...In Reappraisals he looks back at the tragedy of Europe in the 20th century - although one should really say the four decades from the outbreak of World War I until the death of Stalin - and in particular at the Jewish tragedy. Judt writes informatively about Manès Sperber, tenderly about Primo Levi, enthusiastically about Hannah Arendt... Few are better than Tony Judt, not only a historian of the first rank but (in a word we need an equivalent for) a politicologue who gives engagement a good name
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, International Herald Tribune
In Reappraisals the British-born historian, now a university professor in New York, collects 23 essays, written between 1994 and 2006, in which he undertakes a ruthless dissection of the ruling illusions of the post-cold war years...There are illuminating assessments of Primo Levi and Hannah Arendt, a superb deconstruction of the fall of France in 1940, explorations of Belgium's fractured statehood and the ambiguous position of Romania in Europe, analyses of the Cuba crisis and Kissinger's diplomacy, and much else besides...Judt is a liberal thinker dedicated to demystifying liberal illusions. Reappraisals is an indispensable tract for the times by one of the great political writers of the age
John Gray, Guardian
Judt is a highly readable authority... He delivers the intellectual's equivalent of a left hook...the uppercut soon follows...and finally, a knockout punch...The intellectual's intellectual
Niall Ferguson, Financial Times
This is a book that should be read by anyone wishing to understand the modern world.
Roger Moorhouse, BBC History Magazine
Tony Judt...has an enviable grasp of European cultural history and a sharp and sometimes savage turn of phrase, both of which are well displayed in this collection of long essays and book reviews...[He is] shrewd and revealing...you feel you have been eavesdropping on a sparkling conversation
The Economist