When the Facts Change

<p><b>A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of<i> Postwar</i> and <i>Thinking the Twentieth Century </i> that feels all the more potent and important in today&#146;s political climate.</b><br><br><b>Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans.</b><br><br><br>Tony Judt&#146;s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has gathered together important essays from the span of Judt&#146;s career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the remarkable consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual &#233;lan. <br><br>Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country&#146;s Jews during World War II or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem the majesty of Tony Judt&#146;s work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty intellectual brilliance and ethical clarity. <br><br><i>When the Facts Change</i> exemplifies<b> the necessity of minding our history and not letting cheerful fictions suffice in its place.</b> An emphatic demonstration of the power of a great historian to connect us more deeply to the world as it was as it is and as it should be it is a fitting capstone to an extraordinary body of work.</p>