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He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including thinking the twentieth century, the memory chalet, ill fares the land, reappraisals. Tony was overwhelmingly a historian of the twentieth century, and of europes twentieth century and at least one of its more drastic impacts on its near periphery. Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, oscar boards the twentieth century limited and encounters lily, now a temperamental hollywood star. Thinking thetwentieth century, tony judts final work, emerged out of trying circumstances. Thinking the twentieth century by judt, tony, snyder, timothy 20 on. Intellectuals and politics in the twentieth century by tony judt. Judt criticizes american foreign policy, free markets, fellow academics, israel, journalists, and trends within the academic study of history e. Intellectuals and politics in the twentieth century by tony judt with timothy snyder 414pp william heinemann t.
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