Tony Judt: An Intellectual Journey

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Train arriving to Paris from Switzerland near Near Gare de l'Est, 1950

When I met Tony Judt twenty years ago, he was on his way to catch a train. But he lingered instead in Providence to lunch with a couple of Brown University undergraduates. He gently gave career advice to two young men hesitating between history and journalism. Of course I wouldn’t suggest that whoever had a meal with Tony either became a historian, as I did, or won t...