Review
"A penetrating, lucid, intellectual biography." - George Steiner "This book will probably remain Carr's definitive biography." - Times Literary Supplement "...fine, thorough, well-balanced." - Sunday Telegraph Excellent results for our understanding of this unusually complicated and highly individualistic historian, but also for our understanding of his times." - the National Interest "Haslam charts with thoroughness every twist and turn in Carr's long odyssey, which was marked with ferocious independence of thought." - History Today "A remarkable biography of a fascinating figure and in this case not 'too soon'." - The Guardian "1999 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year." - Choice
Product Description
In Edward Hallet Carr's definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation.
About the Author
Jonathan Haslam is the author of The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41. He is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the University Assistant Director of Studies in International Relations (Russia and Eastern Europe).
