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Reappraisals

Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century

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Reappraisals

By: Tony Judt
Narrated by: James Adams
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 The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The 20th century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 was so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it - and the results are proving calamitous.

In less than a generation, the headlong advance of globalization has altered structures of thought that had been essentially unchanged since the European industrial revolution. As a result, we have lost touch with a century of social thought and socially motivated activism. In the 24 essays in Reappraisals, Judt resurrects the key aspects of the world we have lost to remind us how important they still are to us now and to our future.

©2008 Tony Judt (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. 20th Century 21st Century World Interwar Period Imperialism War Military Holocaust

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"As a fascinating exploration of the world we have recently lost - for good or bad, or both - this collection...cannot be bested." ( Publishers Weekly)

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excellent, thought provoking

What did you like most about Reappraisals?

judt gives a personal reflection from the point of view of a jewish historian who focus has been the years after WW2. His insights are timely. His thoughts on the divergence of european and american philosophical approaches to policy in the closing section is particularly interesting. The performance is well done with a english accented reader,

What does James Adams bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

great voice

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

not a film, but a documentary of his life and heroes, and why they were his heroes.

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Quite Good in Places

Several of these essays are about long dead Jewish intellectuals and went right over my head. I had thought that the book would be about reappraising historical events but it isn’t. Not a patch on his book ‘Postwar’ which I found excellent. This book is just a collection of previously published essays. I couldn’t help feeling I had wasted my credit on this one.

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