Twentieth century history sold to Basic

Basic Books and John Murray have bought World English rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Long Retreat: A History of Europe and the World Since 1900

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Sean McMeekin

Sean McMeekin

Sean McMeekin was born in Idaho, raised in Rochester NY, and educated at Stanford and UC Berkeley.  He has been fascinated by modern history ever since playing Winston Churchill in a school reenactment of the Yalta Conference at age 15, and Joseph McCarthy in an even more outlandish reenactm...More about Sean McMeekin