The Vices of Integrity:E. H. Carr, 1892-1982
In Edward Hallet Carr’s definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation.
Reviews
... fine, thorough, well-balanced.
1999 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.
A penetrating, lucid, intellectual biography.
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A remarkable biography of a fascinating figure and in this case not ‘too soon’.
The Guardian -
Excellent results for our understanding of this unusually complicated and highly individualistic historian, but also for our understanding of his times.
the National Interest -
Haslam charts with thoroughness every twist and turn in Carr’s long odyssey, which was marked with ferocious independence of thought.
History Today -
This book will probably remain Carr’s definitive biography.
Times Literary Supplement