John lukacs biography

John Lukacs, a maverick historian, prolific author and self-professed reactionary whose views on politics, populism and pop culture departed from those of.
He was born in name János Albert Lukács in 1924 in Budapest.
John Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than 25 books, including Five Days in London, May 1940, and A New Republic.

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Remembering John Lukacs

Will Hoyt operates an inn for oil and gas workers in eastern Ohio. His articles have appeared in University Bookman and Front Porch Republic.

Greatness in letters is best measured by odd yardsticks, and one of the best is whether to refer a young scholar to an author so the young scholar can quickly and handily learn the essence, transformational power, and magical appeal of whatever discipline happens to interest him. In the field of history, there is only one 20th-century American candidate for such an award who has consistently demonstrated proficiency at reading the past while also reflecting, in a readable way, about what it might mean to read the past. That candidate is John Lukacs, who died on May 6 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, at age 95. Someone wants a referral to learn about history? Give him a copy of Lukacs’s admirably concise, stunningly hard-won, and completely humane pamphlet, “A Student’s Guide to the Study of History,” published (at the dawn of the third millennium!) by ISI Press.

I first got to know Lukacs’s writing when, thanks to

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John Lukacs, a historian who wrote a bestselling tribute to Winston Churchill, dies at 95

John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian, has died at age 95. Lukacs was an iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a bestselling tribute to Winston Churchill, and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and the United States.

Lukacs died of heart failure early Monday at his home outside Philadelphia, according to his stepson, Charles Segal.

A proud and old-fashioned man with a cosmopolitan accent, and erudite but personal prose style, Lukacs was a maverick among historians. In a profession where liberals were a clear majority, he was sharply critical of the left and of the cultural revolution of the 1960s. But he was also unhappy with the modern conservative movement, opposing the Iraq war, mocking hydrogen bomb developer Edward Teller as the “Zsa Zsa Gabor of physics” and disliking the “puerile” tradition, apparently started by Ronald Reagan, of presidents returning military salutes from the armed for

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John Lukacs Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 10033

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th century American history, 20th century European history, World War II, world politics, American politics, the Cold War, and communism. Materials include clippings, periodicals, drafts, manuscripts, research files, lectures, correspondence, financial records, contracts, audiocassettes, compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs) and videocassettes (VHS and Hi-8 tapes).

Dates

Creation: 1799 - 2019
Creation: Majority of material found within 1950 - 2019