Troublemaker: The Life and History of A. J. P. TaylorYale University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 491 pages 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. |
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Contents
The Child Is Father to the Man 19061927 | 1 |
The Making of the Historian | 66 |
The Manchester Years 19301938 | 103 |
The Oxford Years 19381963The Good College Man | 148 |
The Oxford Years 19381965 The Books and their Publishers | 224 |
The London Years 19631985 | 311 |
The Business History of the History Business How Taylor Built his Freelance Career 19341990 | 369 |