{"product_id":"reappraisals-reflections-on-the-forgotten-twentieth-century-9780143115052","title":"Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.\" \u003ci\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.\" \u003ci\u003e--Forbes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe 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 been sacrificed in the triumph of myth\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003emaking over understanding and denial over memory. \u003ci\u003eReappraisals\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudt's book, \u003ci\u003eIll Fares the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tony Judt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.64w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143115052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Judt was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and the United States. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many journals across Europe and the United States. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThinking the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Chalet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIll Fares the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43232608845939,"sku":"9.78014E+12","price":36.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c868c494-4c62-4958-8856-76cb8d5ba0de.jpg?v=1754047997","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/reappraisals-reflections-on-the-forgotten-twentieth-century-9780143115052","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}