Reflections on the Twentieth Century

For readers aged 16+ and those deeply interested in history and politics, as it is written in an accessible conversational style.

"This book is a historical investigation, a biography, and an ethical treatise," says one of its co-authors, American historian Timothy Snyder. His conversations with Tony Judt focus on "the history of modern political ideas in Europe and the United States; power and justice as understood by liberal, socialist, communist, nationalist, and fascist intellectuals from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries." According to Timothy Snyder, among the most important aspects of his conversations with Tony Judt were "reflections on the limitations (and capacity for revival) of political ideas, and on the moral failures (and duties) of intellectuals in politics." At the same time, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" is also a biography of the historian and essayist Tony Judt, who was born in London in the mid-20th century, after the cataclysms of World War II and the Holocaust, at a time when communists were consolidating power in Eastern Europe.