Remembered Past: John Lukacs On History Historians & Historical Knowledge

John Lukacs was among the most accomplished historians of his generation. In more than thirty books and hundreds of essays, he shed new light on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth century—and on the very nature of history itself.

This volume serves at once as an introduction to essential aspects of Lukacs’s thought and an indispensable compendium of his most enduring pieces.

Remembered Past is the definitive Lukacs collection. When you read it, you will understand why John Lukacs earned acclaim as a “master historian” ( Historically Speaking ), “one of the outstanding historians of the generation and, indeed, of our time” (Jacques Barzun), the creator of “a body of work unmatched by any American historian of the 20th (let alone 21st) century” ( Chronicles ), “a marvelously agile writer” (Witold Rybczynski), and a historian unrivaled in his ability to “handle such a variety of problems, persons, and episodes with a touch so personal and an intelligence so profound” (Geoffrey Best).