The History Man

Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard´s desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard´s wife Barbara, promiscuous ´70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury´s masterpiece and the definitive campus novel of the 1970s. It brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles and abuse at the highest level as the Machiavellian Howard effortlessly seduces his way around campus.