{"product_id":"a-thread-of-years-0300080751","title":"A Thread of Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300080751\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lukacs, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as \"one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds [of the] century\" by Conor Cruise O'Brien and as \"one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers\" by Paul Fussell. Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be.The period represents the life of a single man, K., which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735551312160,"sku":"NEW0300080751","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61MGAfdYHbL.jpg?v=1779487831","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-thread-of-years-0300080751","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}