{"product_id":"a-thread-of-years-john-lukacs-9780300080759","title":"A Thread of Years","description":"The distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as \"one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds [of the] century\" by Conor Cruise O'Brien and as \"one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers\" by Paul Fussell. Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe period represents the life of a single man, K., which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Lukacs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300080751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300080759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.09w x 1.25d","brand":"John Lukacs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476839686399,"sku":"9780300080759","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3167cc62-43e9-464c-9691-c746ec946614.jpg?v=1715918308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-thread-of-years-john-lukacs-9780300080759","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}