Raymond Carr: The Curiosity of the Fox

ISBN-13: 9781845197322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str.

Maria Jesus Gonzales

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Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other, rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble circumstances, he vaulted the class barriers of his day and turned himself into an acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy. He met and befriended some of the most important, eccentric, and charismatic intellectual figures of the 20th century and was on first-name terms with aristocrats, prime ministers, artists, spies, the foremost U.S. players in the Cold War, and military leaders in Francoist Spain. This biography tells the story of Raymond Carr's life and personality--as intellectual, traveler, social chameleon, academic mover and shaker, lover of politics, and unrepentant enquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history.