John Lukacs Was born in Budapest, in 1924, came to the United States in 1946. Until his retirement, he taught history at Chestnut Hill College near Philadelphia. He also held visiting professorships at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania. A prolific writer, Lukacs's best-known works include The Duel (Yale University Press, 2001), Five Days in London (Yale Nota Bene, 2001), The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age (Ticknor & Fields, 1993), A Thread of Years (Yale University Press, 1999), and Historical Consciousness (Transaction Publishers, 1994).
"It was about time that a John Lukacs Reader should be brought out,
to show the public the range and depth of this great living
historian's contribution to knowledge, his importance as a thinker
and attractiveness as a narrator of events. The editors' generous
selection of types of work and subjects warrants changing Reader to
Treasury."-Jacques Barzun, author, From Dawn to Decadence: 500
Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
"John Lukacs is an original. His opinions, whether on Winston
Churchill, Tom Wolfe, or Alexis de Tocqueville, are stimulating,
infuriating, profound, never dull. He is a marvelously agile writer
who provides the reader great pleasure while he takes him plumbing
for the truth." - Witold Rybczynski, University of Pennsylvania
"John Lukacs is inimitable; no other elder of our profession can
handle such a variety of problems, persons and episodes with a
touch so personal and an intelligence so profound."-Geoffrey Best,
Fellow of the British Academy
"John Lukacs, a premier intellectual and a historian of enviable
breadth and depth, is as wise, witty, and penetrating as he is
sometimes infuriating. With clarity, grace, and power, he
illuminates the course of modern history, while he disposes of the
cant, fads, and silliness that mark much of today's historical
writing."-Eugene D. Genovese, author, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World
the Slaves Made
"Remembered Past is an indispensable volume for the student of John
Lukacs's thought, and more broadly, for any student of history.
These collected essays and reviews are as relevant today as they
were when first published?indeed, in some cases, even more so. In a
field dominated by ideologues who view human beings as simply cogs
in the great historical machine, Lukacs restores man to his central
place in history and reminds us of the grave moral responsibilities
that accompany our free will."-Scott P. Richert, executive editor,
Chronicles
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