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	John Lukacs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lukacs was born to a Catholic father and Jewish mother.
		Lukacs holds strong neo-isolationist beliefs, and perhaps unusually for an anti-Communist Hungarian émigré, was strongly opposed to the Cold War.
		Lukacs often argued his belief that the Soviet Union was a feeble power on the verge of collapse, and contended that the Cold War was an unnecessary waste of American treasure and life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lukacs (1185 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Thread of Years: Livres en anglais: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lukacs, author of The Hitler of History, explores this issue in A Thread of Years, an impressionist illustration of social history in the 20th century that focuses on the decline of honor and moral behavior in America.
		Lukacs is careful to back up his points, arguing that the decline of imperialist Britain's influence, the rise of immigration, and the slow erosion of religion, along with an apathetic elite class's refusal to give society more support, have all contributed to the decline of morals over the course of this century.
		Lukacs, a well-known maverick within the discipline of history, is self-conscious in his choice of format.
	www.amazon.fr /Thread-Years-John-Lukacs/dp/0300080751 (675 words)

	Amazon.de: The Hitler of History: English Books: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lukacs (The End of the Twentieth Century, 1993, etc.) has the command of languages and scholarship necessary for the ambitious undertaking of studying the expression of such biases in the myriad biographies of Hitler that have proliferated over the last 50 years.
		Lukacs draws a rather pessimistic conclusion from this, suggesting that a downturn in Europe's fortunes might cause Hitler to be revived as an example of order and nationalism.
		Lukacs is an emigre Hungarian professor, and is known in the literary community as a historian of moderately conservative Christian Democratic opinions.
	www.amazon.de /Hitler-History-John-Lukacs/dp/0679446494 (1586 words)

	Amazon.fr : Democracy And Populism: Fear & Hatred: Livres en anglais: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To Lukacs, the United States and the rest of the political world are part of the same universe of discourse, subject to the same laws of cause and effect and to the same standards of judgment.
		Lukacs is not alone, of course, in identifying this decline, which has been a principal theme of conservative lament for many years.
		Lukacs too dilates on the weakness and failure of liberalism, but he also identifies other culprits, among them the displacement of patriotism by an increasingly raucous nationalism, the collapse of democracy into a manipulative populism, the wave of public religiosity and the decline of public education.
	www.amazon.fr /Democracy-Populism-Hatred-John-Lukacs/dp/0300107730 (1201 words)

	Swans Commentary: John Lukacs's "Democracy and Populism, Fear and Hatred," by Milo Clark - mgc158
		Lukacs suggests that democracy is rule by politicians elected by a majority or plurality of those whose votes were counted.
		Lukacs insists that nationalist and patriot are not synonyms.
		Lukacs emphasizes that anti-communism was the most powerful determinant of American politics as well as foreign policy throughout the twentieth century.
	www.swans.com /library/art11/mgc158.html (2704 words)

	Amazon.ca: Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.: Books: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lukas clearly states at the beginning of his short book that his collection of essays is neither a biography nor a scholarly study of Winston Spencer Churchill (pg.
		John Lukacs is a Catholic anglophile and a conservative Christian Democrat who fled from Hungary at the beginning of the cold war.
		Lukacs' description of Churchill as a patriot but not a nationalist (as contrasted with Hitler, who was a nationalist but not a patriot) is also a revealing one -- especially in an era when the two are too easily confused.
	www.amazon.ca /Churchill-Visionary-Statesman-John-Lukacs/dp/0300097697 (2969 words)

	At the End of an Age
		As a successful writer of popular history, Lukacs is no doubt prejudiced on this subject, but he may be on to something when he suggests that popular history may be replacing the novel for serious readers.
		Lukacs even makes bold to predict that, in the 21st century, a new kind of literature could appear, a new kind of history that could satisfy the desire for breadth of understanding once afforded by the novel.
		Lukacs echoes (though he does not cite) Nial Ferguson's insistence that one must keep in mind the futures that did not happen.
	www.johnreilly.info /ateoaa.htm (1875 words)

	Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian / John Lukacs
		John Lukacs, author of the book at hand, has (according to the dustjacket flap) “spent a lifetime considering the complex personality and statesmanship of Winston Churchill”.
		Lukacs defends Churchill's subjective writing, many of whose history books dealt with his own doings or those of his forefathers: In his book The River War, Churchill discusses his adventures as a soldier in Sudan.
		Lukacs clarifies that this is a non-issue, because:
	tal.forum2.org /churchill (820 words)

	John Lukacs' The Hitler of History
		Lukacs also believes that Hitler's personality traits, like his obsessive secrecy, his intelligence, and his charisma, allowed the Germans to follow this leader, and are thus crucial pieces of a Hitler history.
		Lukacs argues that Hitler's entire program--hitherto, gracefully pursued through peaceful diplomatic manipulation--was accelerated by his belief that his years to live were numbered.
		Lukacs pinpoints Hitler's main effect by saying, "What he had seen --and, more or less, accurately--was the formidable attraction of populist nationalism in the age of the masses." Hitler's understanding of this new force and its combination with socialism made his Reich a defining event of our era.
	www.history.upenn.edu /phr/archives/98/coelho.html (887 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hitler of History, the: Books: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lukacs addresses these and many other questions in this book of essays on the many problems Hitler and his regime present to historians.
		The late noted historian Lukacs (e.g., Destinations Past, LJ 6/15/94) has not written a biography of Hitler but a history of the history of the knowledge we have of Hitler by examining his major biographers.
		Lukacs chooses his words carefully when he describes the Nazi party, Nazi Germany, Hitler, and even the term "totalitarian." But when the commies are mentioned, that level of sophistication is gone.
	www.amazon.ca /Hitler-History-John-Lukacs/dp/0679446494 (1893 words)

	Jeet Heer, "John Lukacs"
		Because his parent’s divorced when he was young, Lukacs searched for familial stability from his maternal grandparents, who became for him living symbols of Hungary’s golden age, the bourgeois epoch of the early 20th century that was swept away by war and mass politics.
		Lukacs believes that the modern age, which began five centuries ago with the waning of medieval civilization, is drawing to a close.
		Drawing on a perhaps overly familiar litany of conservative complaints, Lukacs laments that all the amenities and achievements of the modern age are falling into disarray.
	www.jeetheer.com /politics/lukacs.htm (2778 words)

	Say goodbye to the west as we know it: noted historian John Lukacs brings a lifetime of scholarship to a book that ...
		John Lukacs' new book, At the End of an Age (Yale University Press, $22.95,225 pp), is a celebration of the historian's way of thinking and the wisdom history offers when it's done the right way.
		These are subjects Lukacs, a prolific historian, has taken up before in books such as Historical Consciousness, first published in 1968 and reprinted two times since, and The Passing of the Modern Age, which appeared in 1970.
		Lukacs sees historical consciousness and thinking as first appearing 300 to 400 years ago, at about the same time science began its own impressive development.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_26_18/ai_90041164 (977 words)

	Books in Review: A Thread of Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lukacs has scant respect for "novelized histories," where authors put their own words into the mouths of great historical figures.
		Lukacs, who is himself of Hungarian origin, is less than clear on what the substance of Anglo-American civilization is, or was.
		In geographic history it antedates the Louisiana Purchase, and demographically it was seriously challenged by the Celtic immigration near the middle of the nineteenth century, not to mention the arrival of millions from Southern and Eastern Europe at the close of the century.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9808/reviews/mckenna.html (1307 words)

	Scott P. Richert reviews John Lukacs's At the End of an Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lukacs would be the first to admit—or, rather, insist—that theory and reality do not always mesh.
		As Lukacs is fond of saying, writing of the half-truths of historian E.H. Carr’s analysis, “the important question is ‘What is Carr driving at?’ and not ‘What is the make of this Carr?’” But that is precisely why, in order to understand an historian’s work, it is essential to have some knowledge of the historian.
		While Lukacs is not exactly one to wear his Christianity on his sleeve, the Christian implications of his work (and Barfield’s before him, particularly the latter’s Saving the Appearances) are obvious.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/August2003/0803Richert.html (943 words)

	Democracy and Populism
		Lukacs is disenthused with President George W. Bush and such of his works as Lukacs can bring himself to mention, but he does not blame any individual or party.
		In this book, Lukacs continues his polemic against progress, or against what he calls “the myth of progress.” Both Communism and anti-Communism were informed by the premise that history was progressive.
		Lukacs aspires to speak for the universal perspective of the Catholic Church, and even of the Habsburg tradition.
	www.johnreilly.info /depo.htm (1733 words)

	June 1941: Hitler and Stalin by John Lukacs \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		That brief conflict, however, overshadowed another episode that John Lukacs, in his latest book on World War II, fails to mention: Gen. Georgy Zhukov's humiliating defeat of the Japanese in the bloody Nomonhan campaign on the Manchurian-Mongolian border in the summer of 1939.
		To Lukacs, the key to Stalin's blindness was his "consistent distrust of the English, whom he viewed as prototypical imperialists and capitalists, worse than the Germans whom he respected.
		John Lukacs has written a learned, wise book that is a fitting companion to his little masterpiece Five Days in London: May 1940, the story of how Churchill became prime minister.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/4045620.html (973 words)

	The Free Liberal: John Lukacs and Understanding History
		John Lukacs is a Hungarian émigré who fled his native land during the Soviet occupation in 1945.
		Lukac’s work is not as well known as that of Stephen Ambrose, Forrest MacDonald, or Howard Zinn but that may change soon with the publication, by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, of a compendium of Lukacs’ writings, titled, Remembered Past.
		Lukacs argues that historical consciousness is “personal and participant,” and it is here that he reflects the perspective of Lord Acton.
	www.freeliberal.com /archives/001114.html (826 words)

	History in a Democratic Age: A Conversation with John Lukacs
		Lukacs: You touched on two subjects that are very close to me. There is today among the public--especially among the American public, but this is almost a worldwide phenomenon--a broad interest in history.
		Lukacs: Balfour, who was a great speaker but had difficulty in writing, said about Churchill’s The World Crisis,--his multivolume history of the First World War--that Churchill had written an autobiography and called it The World Crisis, which is both funny and a bit mean.
		Lukacs: He was worried that toward the end of the war Hitler would fly to England and say, “Do with me”--these are his words, Churchill’s--”Do with me what you want to do, but spare my unfortunate people.” I think this would have put the Allies in a considerable dilemma.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2003-01/democraticage.html (3149 words)

	The Hitler of History - John Lukacs - Used Books
		Lukacs examines all the major biographies of the German dictator that have been published to date and attempts to demonstrate how each of the authors has succeeded or failed in advancing our understanding of Hitler as a man and a political force.
		John Lukacs surveys scores of books about Hitler, analysing their strengths and weaknesses, and pointing out the historical problems that still await solution.
		In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas.
	www.biblio.com /books/88966879.html (524 words)

	Eunomia · Thank Goodness for John Lukacs
		Today’s politicians of the right, Lukacs writes, have abandoned the conservative values of stability, order, and tradition and instead learned to bind nationalist majorities together by evoking hatred, directed not just against foreign foes but against fellow citizens who are seen as insufficiently patriotic.
		The reactionary “is a patriot but not a nationalist,” Lukacs explained in his 1990 autobiography, ‘Confessions of an Original Sinner.” “He favors conservation rather than conservatism; he defends the ancient blessing of the land and is dubious about the results of technology; he believes in history, not in Evolution.”
		Lukacs), however far on the ‘fringe’ we are, continue to have such a great mind confessing eternal verities and refusing to submit to the screeching, incoherent nonsense of the self-appointed rulers of conservatism.
	larison.org /2005/03/09/thank-goodness-for-john-lukacs (1632 words)

	Democracy and Populism
		In it, John Lukacs addresses the questions of how our democracy has changed and why we have become vulnerable to the shallowest possible demagoguery.
		Lukacs contrasts the political systems, movements, and ideologies that have bedeviled the twentieth century: democracy, Liberalism, nationalism, fascism, Bolshevism, National Socialism, populism.
		Reflecting on American democracy, Lukacs describes its evolution from the eighteenth century to its current form—a dangerous and possibly irreversible populism.
	yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300107730 (178 words)

	Amazon.de: Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian: English Books: John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Overall, though, Lukacs convincingly portrays a leader of an empire in irreversible decline and a towering, if flawed, hero of our time.
		Lukacs was able to connect with a popular readership in his two histories about Churchill's finest hours in 1940 (The Duel, 1991, and Five Days in London, 1999); his work is also of special interest to professional historians (The Hitler of History, 1997).
		Lukacs' ability to meld the scholarly with the popular is much in evidence here, particularly in the author's discussion of Churchill's quality as a historian.
	www.amazon.de /Churchill-Visionary-Statesman-John-Lukacs/dp/0300097697 (534 words)

	Book Review: Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Here Lukacs posits a telling appraisal that reflects the observations of Alexis de Tocqueville, “Majority rule is tempered by the legal assurance of the rights of the minorities, and of individual men and women.
		In his chapter, the decline of the state, Lukacs argues that conservatives suffer from the malaise of “split-mindedness.” That is, while they oppose “Big Government,” and see it as a menace to freedom and liberty, they support defense spending, space programs, and increased police powers.
		Lukacs’ chapters, Tyranny of the majority, Decline of privacy, Rise of publicity, Publicity and celebrity, Changes in the recording and knowledge of history, are a series of brilliant exegetical exercises designed to provide the reader with a broad understanding of the negative influences affecting the body politic.
	www.calitreview.com /Reviews/democracy_052.htm (872 words)

	John Lukacs Speaks on George Kennan - U.S. Embassy Budapest, Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lukacs is the author of more than 20 books, published in the United States and the United Kingdom, of which at least ten have been published in his native Hungarian since 1989.
		Lukacs served from 1947-94 as professor of history at Chestnut Hill College, and as its department chair from 1947-74.
		He also served as a visiting professor at many universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins University, and at the University of Budapest.
	www.usembassy.hu /lukacs.html (240 words)

	Five Days in London May 1940:John Lukacs:0300080301:eCampus.com
		The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war.
		Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities.
		Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill's determination to stand fa
	www.ecampus.com /book/0300080301 (275 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
		Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas.
		"Lukacs is a shrewd historian and an engaging writer.
		"Lukacs is a cultivated historian of conservative values and liberal intellect.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375701139 (265 words)

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