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

Paperback • 2004 • English

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

By Francis Wheen

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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. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to reassert 'Victorian values'. In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out...Show more

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ISBN

9780007140978

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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