John Lukacs: The Chronicler and the Historian

Tiszaeszlár, Fifty Years Later
Frigyes Podmaniczky’s Beard
The Bridegroom of Andrássy Avenue
The St. Stephen’s Day Traveler
Catholic Crusading Knights of Yore: Their Glory and Their Decline
Somosy, the Man Who Taught Budapest a Lesson in Nightlife
The Court Kept by Miklós Szemere
The Authentic Account of a Legendary Card Battle
One Hundred Years of Horse Racing in Budapest
The Rose of Pest
László Mednyánszky, the Vagabond Baron
The Novelist at the Casino
My Adventures with the Poet on the Crooked Sidewalks
The Lord Mayor of Budapest
The Streets of St. Theresa
Kossuth’s Son
Francis Joseph’s Wine
Francis Joseph I, the Foremost Gentleman in Europe
Ida Ferenczy, the Queen’s Lady-in-Waiting
Baltazzi, the Agent of the Prince
Letter from Pest, 10 May 1914
Winter Campaign
A Budapest Gentleman who had Stepped Forth from an Old Woodcut
Women’s Hands
A Hungarian Village After Sundown
The Coronation
Charles IV, Our Ill-Starred King
If the Elder Tisza Were to Return...
The Golden Age of Budapest
Budapest Stark Naked
A Revolutionary Conversation with a Russian Lady
István Tisza’s Journey Toward Death
The New Conquest
How the Revolution Broke Out
Land Distribution at Kápolna
Károlyi’s Strange Career
“The Bolshie”
We, the Old-Time Hungarians
Hungarian Gentry
Forefathers and Descendants

Notes compiled by László Kelecsényi
Bibliography
Index