Thinking the Twentieth Century

<h4>G.J. Meyer&rsquo;s books include&nbsp;The Tudors&nbsp;and&nbsp;A World Undone: the Story of the Great War. Currently he is working on a book on the Borgias and Renaissance Italy, scheduled for publication next year by Random House. A former journalist, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University and lives in Wiltshire, England.</h4>

G.J. Meyer

Valediction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

G.J. Meyer&rsquo;s books include&nbsp;The Tudors&nbsp;and&nbsp;A World Undone: the Story of the Great War. Currently he is working on a book on the Borgias and Renaissance Italy, scheduled for publication next year by Random House. A former journalist, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University and lives in Wiltshire, England.