Now I want to introduce you to Tony Judt, one of my big picture guys, who happens to be my favorite writer right now.
He has written a massively well-regarded work about post-WWII Europe, titled, appropriately, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. It's quite the page-turner--no easy task for an 896 page history spanning 60 years and an entire continent.
He contributes to the New York Review of Books (only some pieces are available online for free--when I can rub two nickels together I plan to subscribe).
His latest work, Ill Fares The Land, just came out. I plan to read it, but I have read this excerpt from its first chapter, as well as this related essay.
I highly, highly recommend reading both.
And he is quadriplegic due to advanced Lou Gehrig's Disease. Take that, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis!
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