Ill Fares The Land
A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2011
Summary
‘Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay’ - Oliver Goldsmith
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest- indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of shared purpose. But we have forgotten how to think about the life we live together- its goals and purposes. We are now not only post-ideological; we have become pos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718191412 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0718191412 |
| Author: | Tony Judt, Professor Tony Judt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Sinewy analysis and supple prose, as clear and refreshing as a mountain stream
Sinewy analysis and supple prose, as clear and refreshing as a mountain stream – Christopher Silvester * Telegraph *One of the most remarkable books on politics to have appeared for a very long time – John Gray * Literary Review *Elegant, courageous and deeply humane – Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Tony Judt
Professor Tony Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, the New York Times, and many other journals in Europe and the US.
His books include Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Postwar was recognized as one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2005, winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It was also a runner-up for the 2006 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
At the time of his death in August 2010 at the age of 62, Tony Judt was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University. In 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007, a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2009, Judt was awarded a Special Orwell Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his contribution to British Political writing.
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