The thaw generation

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Chris Wrigley. --

"A scholar gentleman in the old style; a northern non-conforming radical; an academic steeped in Oxford traditions; a late 20th-century media personality; one of the most outstanding historians of his age: A.J.P. Taylor was all of these. He wrote about traditional historical subjects in a traditional manner and took narrative history to new heights and was equally at home with a critical academic, as with a vast popular audience. This biographical study of A.J.P. Taylor includes details of Taylor's privileged and cosseted childhood, the effect of his close but combative and stimulating family, the dissenting and nonconformist tradition, and his time as teacher, broadcaster journalist and historian. It attempts to evaluate how far he fulfilled his aim and conviction as to the importance of history and its place at the heart of national consciousness."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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[compiled by] John Langston Gwaltney

Twenty-seven remarkable people talk about their personal experiences of dissent, the battles they have fought, and they discuss what made them dissenters.

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Robert Allen Rutland

"Although historians talk about each other's work routinely, they have been reluctant to record their thoughts about the leading practitioners of U.S. history. Robert Allen Rutland attempts to remedy this state of things with this collection named for Clio, the Greek muse vested with the inspirations of history. The volume offers a glimpse of the lives and work of historians who must be considered among the most remarkable from the last half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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E.B. de Bruyn

Autobiografie van de Nederlandse letterkundige over zijn leven in katholieke internaten, in de voorloorlogse cultuurcentra en in Marokko.