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"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
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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.
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STRONG ON VICES, WEAK ON INTEGRITY,
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This review is from: The Vices of Integrity: E.H.Carr, 1892-1982 (Paperback)
E.H.Carr burst into the consciousness of every schoolboy in England studying History at 'A' level in 1961, when he published a series of lectures entitled 'What is History?' It was virtually a set book. No-one could contemplate an interview at a University without having read it, and possibly memorised it.We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated. This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity. But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him. Stephen Cooper
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This review is from: The Vices of Integrity: E.H.Carr, 1892-1982 (Paperback)
Very few biographies do exist about Ed. Carr. This biography by Haslam is definitely the best. Haslam himself being a student of Carr could not have made a better tribute to his and many other 'realists' teacher.
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This review is from: The Vices of Integrity: E.H.Carr, 1892-1982 (Paperback)
E.H.Carr burst into the consciousness of every schoolboy in England studying History at 'A' level in 1961, when he published a series of lectures entitled 'What is History?' It was virtually a set book. No-one could contemplate an interview at a University without having read it, and possibly memorised it.We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated. This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity. But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him. Stephen Cooper |
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