{"product_id":"reappraisals-isbn-9780143115052","title":"Reappraisals","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” \u003ci\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.Reappraisals\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eThe World We Have Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter I: \u003ci\u003eArthur Koestler, the Exemplary Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter II: \u003ci\u003eThe Elementary Truths of Primo Levi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter III: \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Europe of Manes Sperber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV: \u003ci\u003eHannah Arendt and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Intellectual Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter V: \u003ci\u003eAlbert Camus: \"The best man in France\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI: \u003ci\u003eElucubrations: The \"Marxism\" of Louis Althusser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII: \u003ci\u003eEric Hobsbawm and the Romance of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII: \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That? Leszek Kotakowski and the Marxist Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX: \u003ci\u003eA \"Pope of Ideas\"? John Paul II and the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter X: \u003ci\u003eEdward Said: The Rootless Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: \u003ci\u003eLost in Transition: Places and Memories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XI: \u003ci\u003eThe Catastrophe: The Fall of France, 1940\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII: A la recherche du temps perdu: \u003ci\u003eFrance and Its Pasts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII: \u003ci\u003eThe Gnome in the Garden: Tony Blair and Britain's \"Heritage\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV: \u003ci\u003eThe Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV: \u003ci\u003eRomania between History and Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI: \u003ci\u003eDark Victory: Israel's Six-Day War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII: \u003ci\u003eThe Country That Wouldn't Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: \u003ci\u003eThe American (Half-) Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XVIII: \u003ci\u003eAn American Tragedy? The Case of Whittaker Chambers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX: \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XX: \u003ci\u003eThe Illusionist: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXI: \u003ci\u003eWhose Story Is It? The Cold War in Retrospect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXII: \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIII: \u003ci\u003eThe Good Society: Europe vs. America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvoi: \u003ci\u003eThe Social Question Redivivus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublication Credits\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eForbes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301939400933,"sku":"NP9780143115052","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143115052.jpg?v=1767735487","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reappraisals-isbn-9780143115052","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}