Tony Judt

British-American historian whose Postwar is the definitive history of Europe since 1945, and whose final work Ill Fares the Land is a passionate defense of social democracy against market fundamentalism.

Postwar: a 900-page history of Europe since 1945 — the reconstruction, the Cold War, 1968, the fall of Communism, and the emergence of contemporary Europe. Ill Fares the Land: written while dying of ALS — a defense of social democracy and a critique of the language of market economics. The burden of responsibility: essays on European intellectuals and their political commitments.