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‘No journalist had a deeper sense of history:’ six essential Ian Jack works

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Ian Jack, pictured here in 2017, was one of the great British journalists of his generation Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/The Guardian

Ian Jack, who has died at the age of 77, was one of the great British journalists of his generation. “No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack,” his friend Donald Macintyre wrote on Saturday. “It’s hard to think of anyone in our trade who was better read or had deeper intellectual interests and passions.”

You could start almost anywhere among his remarkable body of work and feel certain of pleasure and enlightenment – but here are six recommendations from his colleagues.

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