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100			_aHobsbawm, Eric J.
245			_aInteresting times : a twentieth-century life
260			_bAbacus _c2002 _aLondon
300			_axiv, 447 p. _b[16] p. of plates : ill. _c20 cm
365			_b599.00 _cINR _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aBorn in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century, from Hitler's rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for 85 years, and has been constantly committed to understanding the "interesting times" (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jew's account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently, and how it became the world we now live in.
650			_aHistorians
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aHistory, Modern
650			_aTwentieth century
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