{"product_id":"a-grand-illusion-an-essay-on-europe-9780814743584","title":"A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist.\" --\u003cb\u003eTony Judt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudt, Tony:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tony Judt was a University Professor, the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies, and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492147564818,"sku":"9780814743584","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e7f6caa1-3797-40c7-8399-bf9aca0834db.jpg?v=1730573156","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-grand-illusion-an-essay-on-europe-9780814743584","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}