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Best of Times, Worst of Times
Walter Laqueur
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Description for Best of Times, Worst of Times
Hardcover. A memoir by a prominent and highly respected historian and political commentator Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped his thinking and that have inspired his intellectual work throughout his life. He discusses living and attending school under Nazism; Marxism, the Soviet Union, and the part he played in Cold War politics; and the image his generation had of Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Laqueur shares his views on beltway politics ... Read more
Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped his thinking and that have inspired his intellectual work throughout his life. He discusses living and attending school under Nazism; Marxism, the Soviet Union, and the part he played in Cold War politics; and the image his generation had of Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Laqueur shares his views on beltway politics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781584657989
SKU
V9781584657989
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About Walter Laqueur
WALTER LAQUEUR is a former director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London and founder and editor with George Mosse of the Journal of Contemporary History and of Survey. A professor of history of ideas at Brandeis University and Georgetown University, he has been visiting professor of history and government at Harvard, University of Chicago, ... Read more
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