Popular, prolific, and impassioned, British historian A. J. P.
Taylor (1906-1990) was also outspoken, controversial, and
quarrelsome. Taylor's many books, including The Struggle for
Mastery in Europe, The Origins of the Second World War, and English
History 1914-1945, changed the way history was written and read.
His legendary television lectures, delivered live and unscripted,
brought history to a huge popular audience. In this masterful
biography, Kathleen Burk provides a perceptive account of the life
and achievements of Britain's most famous twentieth-century
historian. Burk draws on her personal acquaintance with Taylor in
his later years and on an array of previously untapped archival
materials to analyze the successes, failures, and controversies of
Taylor's life as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist,
husband, and friend. The author sets Taylor's professional work in
the context of the development of history in England during the
century, and she traces the relations between his writings and his
reactions to domestic and foreign politics. Her account of Taylor's
years at Oxford explores the customs and rituals of the academic
community, his colleagues, and the successive crises that beset him
personally and professionally. The book also assesses Taylor's
political activities and his self-described role as an "impotent
socialist," his development as a journalist and broadcaster,
previously unknown financial aspects of his freelance activities,
and his private upheavals, in particular his failed marriages.
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