Jonathan Haslam, The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 (New York: Verso, 1999), 240 pp., $35.

"BEFORE you study the history, study the historian. ... Before you study the historian, study his historical and social environment." This advice has been taken up and applied with excellent results to its source, E.H. Carr (1892-1982), one of twentieth-century Britain's most prominent historians and public intellectuals, by Jonathan Haslam, who was a research associate of Carr's ...