Controversial historian Tony Judt dies at 62
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The highly praised and controversial historian Tony Judt has died in New York. A New York University spokesman says Judt died Friday night due to complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 62.
Judt was a professor of European studies at the school. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006 for his nearly 900-page history of modern Europe, "Postwar." His illness and determination to tell the tale brought sympathy and admiration for a historian not known for sparing feelings. Over his career he had taken on communists, free marketers, supporters of the Iraq War and, most contentiously, Israel. (AP)
