New Releases by John Lukacs

Lukacs shares forty years of travels blending travel and history in these essays.

Examines the twentieth century, where society is today, how it got there, and where it is headed.

At a time when many are concerned by the nation's loss of the unassailable economic position it occupied just after World War II, one historian argues that our real strength - and our real peril - lie elsewhere.

A fond, canny, and surprising tour of the town where the Constitution was born.

For a few weeks Hitler came close to winning World War II. Then came a train of events that doomed him. An eloquent historian reminds us that however unsatisfactory our world may be today, it almost was unimaginably worse.

Profiles seven notable Philadelphians, foremost in their respective fields, including political boss, Boris Penrose, magazine mogul Edward Bok, and diplomat William C. Bullitt, and sketches the city of Philadelphia in 1900 and 1950

First Harper torchbook edition l972.

Description and analysis of the two great protagonists, and history of their relationships during 1945-1960.

One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be studied, described, or understood through its history. In this extraordinary analysis of the meaning of the remembered past, John Lukacs discusses the evolution of historical consciousness since its first emergence about three centuries ago.