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Colleagues pick must-read pieces from the Guardian columnist’s remarkable body of work This piece is extracted from our First Edition newsletter. To sign up, click hereIan 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. Continue reading...