Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt
Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt
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Ill Fares the Land

Author: Tony Judt

Narrator: James Adams

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2010

Synopsis

British historian Tony Judt writes a passionate, wise letter about what is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. He shows how to apply the past to the future, challenging us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in.

About Tony Judt

Tony Judt was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and the United States. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the École Normale Superieure, Paris, and also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. Professor 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 journals across Europe and the United States. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Thinking the Twentieth Century, The Memory Chalet, Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August 2010 at the age of sixty-two.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly

Tony Judt is attempting to do three things here: (1)- make an argument for the virtues of "the state" in general, (2) make a more specific argument for the particular system of social democracy and (3) to "give guidance to those- the young especially- trying to articulate their objections to our way......more

Goodreads review by Kuszma

„A közjó érdekében társadalmi cselekvést javasolni a londoni Citynek olyan, mint hatvan évvel ezelőtt egy püspökkel beszélgetni A fajok eredeté-ről.” (John Maynard Keynes) Aggodalommal átszőtt elemzés arról, hogy nagy baj van. A szkeptikus olvasó megvonja a vállát, na ja, nagy baj van, mindig nagy baj......more

Goodreads review by Zanna

Yawn yawn. The world is a miserable mess, billionaires are greedy, politicians do nothing because the dogma of free markets and small government is running the show, pretending private sector booms aren't just cashing out years (decades) of careful public sector investment and development. Nod nod n......more

Goodreads review by Maru

When I finished Tony Judt’s “Ill Fares the Land” I finally understood the complicated feelings I had held inside of me for so long. Here at last was someone who knew the real me. I could imagine the emotional turmoil a teenager feels after he finishes “Death in Venice” and realizes he is gay. I can......more

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