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About Tony Judt
See more books from this AuthorIn the end, what is striking about this book is the great difference between the 20th-century world it describes and the present.
Read Full Review of Thinking the Twentieth Century | See more reviews from NY TimesThus "the time has … come to distinguish between Israel and the Holocaust, since the latter should not be allowed to serve as a get-out-of-jail-free card for a rogue state". Phrases like these crop up on nearly every page of this valiant book. Read it and weep that there shall be no more.
Read Full Review of Thinking the Twentieth Century | See more reviews from GuardianBrilliantly eloquent, and apparently recalling every book they have ever read, the two historians find something striking and original to say about almost everything.
Read Full Review of Thinking the Twentieth Century | See more reviews from GuardianThinking the Twentieth Century is Judt's final salvo against what he saw as a culture of historical ignorance and political apathy, and it's every bit as brilliant, uncompromising and original as he was.
Read Full Review of Thinking the Twentieth Century | See more reviews from NPRLet us hope that voters heading to the polls this November to elect a president of the United States keep Judt’s words in heart and mind.
Read Full Review of Thinking the Twentieth Century | See more reviews from Globe and MailIt is disappointing to see how, even at this late stage, Judt was himself so intolerant and contemptuous of those who differed from him on this issue, unable to respect their point of view as he clearly wanted his own to be.
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