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I was late discovering Tony Judt. By the time I started reading his essays in the New York Review of Books, I also learned that he was dying of a progressive neurological disorder. But I remember when his book Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 was released a few years ago and knew that Judt was clearly a top-rate historian. The sheer breadth of research and sympathy is remarkable. It leads to Postwar's claim to be the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years which integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture -- high and low -- into a single grand narrative.

Tony Judt is our Author of the Month for February. In his new book, Thinking the Twentieth Century, the last century comes to life as an age of ideas--a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments.

I encourage you, if you haven't already read Postwar to read it, and then dive into Thinking the Twentieth Century.