". fine, thorough, well-balanced."- Sunday Telegraph "1999 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year."- Choice "A penetrating, lucid, intellectual biography."-George Steiner "A remarkable biography of a fascinating figure and in this case not 'too soon'."- The Guardian "Excellent results for our understanding of this unusually complicated and highly individualistic historian, but also for our understanding of his times."- the National Interest "Haslam charts with thoroughness every twist and turn in Carr's long odyssey, which was marked with ferocious independence of thought."- History Today "This book will probably remain Carr's definitive biography.

"- Times Literary Supplement.