How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

by Francis Wheen

Overview

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004’s most talked about books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780007382071
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/10/2012
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	599 KB

About the Author

Francis Wheen is deputy editor of Private Eye and the editor of Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, the author of the bestselling How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World and Karl Marx: A Life, and a former columnist in the London Guardian. He has contributed to Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New Yorker, LA Times, and Washington Post, and has appeared on C-SPAN's Booknotes and National Public Radio.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Dare to Know	1
1	The Voodoo Revolution	9
2	Old Snake-Oil, New Bottles	39
3	It's the End of the World as We Know It	62
4	The Demolition Merchants of Reality	75
5	The Catastrophists	113
6	With God on Our Side	153
7	Us and Them	161
8	The New Romantics	178
9	Forward to the Past	206
10	Voodoo Revisited	238
	Notes	289
	Index	306