The Vices of Integrity

In Edward Hallet Carr’s definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation.“... fine, thorough, well-balanced.”—Sunday Telegraph

“1999 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.”—Choice

“A penetrating, lucid, intellectual biography.”—George Steiner

“A remarkable biography of a fascinating figure and in this case not ‘too soon’.”—The Guardian

“Excellent results for our understanding of this unusually complicated and highly individualistic historian, but also for our understanding of his times.”—the National Interest

“Haslam charts with thoroughness every twist and turn in Carr’s long odyssey, which was marked with ferocious independence of thought.”—History Today

“This book will probably remain Carr’s definitive biography.”—Times Literary Supplement