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.