The New York Times Book Review - Samuel Moyn
This new and presumably last of Judt's collections of scintillating journalism runs the gamut of his interests…When the Facts Change ranges from the excitement of 1989 through the agonies of post-9/11 foreign policy to our parlous domestic circumstances after the financial crash. It also includes some of the pen portraits for which Judt was deservedly famous. Taken together, these essays also paint his own portrait…This collection is a reminder of Judt's clear mind and prose and, as Homans says in her lovely introduction, his fidelity to hard facts and to honest appraisals of the modern scene.
From the Publisher
Tony Judt was a historian whose journalism includes some of the finest things he wrote . . . In an era of growing anti-intellectualism, his essays remind us of what we gain when we stick fast to high ethical and intellectual standards, and what is lost when we let them slip.” —Mark Mazower, Financial Times
“Scintillating journalism . . . This collection is a reminder of Judt’s clear mind and prose and, as Homans says in her lovely introduction, his fidelity to hard facts and to honest appraisal of the modern scene. . . . No wonder this book, and Judt’s assumption of the role of political critic after the Cold War, remain so relevant.” —Samuel Moyn, The New York Times Book Review
Tony Judt
Mark Mazower, Financial Times:
“Tony Judt was a historian whose journalism includes some of the finest things he wrote... In an era of growing anti-intellectualism, his essays remind us of what we gain when we stick fast to high ethical and intellectual standards, and what is lost when we let them slip.”
Samuel Moyn, The New York Times Book Review:
“Scintillating journalism... This collection is a reminder of Judt’s clear mind and prose and, as Homans says in her lovely introduction, his fidelity to hard facts and to honest appraisal of the modern scene.... No wonder this book, and Judt’s assumption of the role of political critic after the Cold War, remain so relevant.”
Library Journal
08/01/2014
Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, Judt was a major intellectual force whose books and essays shaped how we look at the world. The collection Reappraisals (2008) focused on 20th-century Europe; here, his widow, the historian Jennifer Homans, brings us more essays by framing this second collection as a showcase of how Judt's thought evolved.