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- Author: John Lukacs
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300080751
- ISBN-13: 9780300080759
- Format: 15.5 x 23.3 x 3.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds of the] century by Conor Cruise O'Brien and as one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers by Paul Fussell. Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be.
The period represents the life of a single man, K., which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: John Lukacs
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300080751
- ISBN-13: 9780300080759
- Format: 15.5 x 23.3 x 3.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds of the] century by Conor Cruise O'Brien and as one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers by Paul Fussell. Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be.
The period represents the life of a single man, K., which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.
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