Thinking the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

from gregorybrown

Before his death from ALS, Tony Judt unexpectedly blossomed into an intellectual titan: penning a history of post-WWII Europe, writing essays for the New York Review of Books, and collecting reminiscences of his lifetime. And just as luckily for us, all of those found print-Europe in the critical...

from HadriantheBlind

This is a dense, yet conversational view of the history of the 20th century and the modern world. Judt relates a personal story of his childhood and early life, and then uses this as a background for a broad historical view of the circumstances which shaped and defined modern Europe. Snyder, a fi...

from stillatim

A very odd book for any number of reasons. The greatest cause of oddity is Timothy Snyder, who interviews Judt and edits his responses, while putting in a few words of his own, either when he has a particularly good thought, or when Judt's words need context. The oddness comes from the first thir...

from 4bonasa

A pleasant journey through the delusional world of the intellectual mind, replete with straw men, ad hominem attacks, and hackneyed economic theory. A good case of Bush Derangement Syndrome adds a bit of humor to an otherwise waste of reading time.

from Illiniguy71

Written as Tim Snyder interviewing Tony Judt, this is the latter's informal analysis of the most important trends of twentieth-century Western intellectual history. It is also a plea for Judt's political philosophy in support of well regulated capitalism with strong social welfare programs--the p...