Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt

Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: History, Social History
ISBN: 9781407006659
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Amazon: 1594201366
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Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008-04-17T00:00:00+00:00


2 Except when it can be exploited for demagogic ends. When in the year 2000 Magdalen College, Oxford, didn’t offer a place to a young woman from a state school who has since been admitted to Harvard, the government and Britain’s tabloid press vigorously outbid one another in accusing Oxbridge of “elitism.” Britain’s two leading universities duly groveled and promised to do better in the future.

3 Many British towns are “twinned” with continental counterparts—an excuse for town managers and local politicians to get free holidays at municipal expense. The only lasting echo of Barnsley’s earnest proletarian past is a rusting sign on the main road into town: “Barnsley: twinned with Gorlavka, Ukraine.”



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