Book · 1994 · Nonfiction
The Age of Extremes
1914-1991
Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 672 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score
The twentieth century runs from 1914 to 1991 in Hobsbawm's account, moving through catastrophe, a golden age of postwar boom, then landslide. No later history of the century has displaced it.
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1994Depicts 20th century
