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Apr 11, 2010 tony judt himself encourages dissent from conformity, for which there is much to be said. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read postwar. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ill fares the land. He was educated at kings college, cambridge and the ecole normale superieure, paris, and has taught at cambridge, oxford, berkeley and new york university, where he is currently the erich maria remarque professor of european studies and director of the remarque institute, which is dedicated to the study of europe and which he founded in 1995.
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