Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
By Tony Judt
William Heinemann £20, 464 pages
FT Bookshop price: £16

Tony Judt is an intellectuals’ intellectual. To review a book composed of his book reviews, which are often about other people who wrote a lot of book reviews, you feel you really ought to be sitting in a café on the Rive Gauche, smoking Gauloises and sipping Pernod.