Past Imperfect

""Past Imperfect" is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years (1944-1956). Mr. Judt does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in failing to test their political thought against political reality."-John Sturrock, "New York Times Book Review"