" Erudition shines through in these essays first published in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, and others during the latter couple of decades of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century. History matters, Judt writes. And not just as facts, the who-what-where-when of events, but as responses to the larger questions of why and how. "
— Terry, 2/10/2014