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Title: Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
Author: JUDT TONY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/05/2011
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
‘This marvellously written book . . . makes a passionate case for a return of real values to politics’ Chris Patten, Observer
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today.
For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask: is it good? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society?
Tony Judt, one of the world’s leading historians and intellectuals, argues that we must look to our recent past and once again value fairness over mere efficiency. This concentrated expression of a lifetime’s concerns gives us the tools with which to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.
‘Elegant, courageous and deeply humane’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
‘It is hard to imagine a more timely book . . . a passionate polemic’ David Herman, New Statesman
‘You should read Ill Fares the Land . . . for its temperate moral passion, its sinewy analysis and its supple prose’ Christopher Silvester, Daily Telegraph
‘Poignant and arresting’ Economist
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ISBN: 9780718191412
Pages: 256