New Releases by John Lukacs

Traces the decline of Anglo-American civilization and the concept of the gentleman in a fictionalized social history that follows a man named Kensington and the people who surround him from 1901 to 1969.

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

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.

Regeringschefer, præsidenter; Krigsafslutning 1945

First Harper torchbook edition l972.

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.