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A NOTE FROM FRANCIS WHEENOver dinner on September 10, 2001, I had a long conversation with my publisher about turning points in history. In the early hours of the following morning I wrote a proposal for a book identifying 1979 as just such a turning point, marked by the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and the Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran. I argued that the subsequent proliferation of gurus and cults—from militant Islam to voodoo economics, New Age primitivism to radical post-modernism—threatened the Enlightenment's legacy of reason, science and secular liberalism. Little did I imagine how soon, or how horribly, Osama bin Laden would prove the point. This is, then, not so much a 9/11 book as a 9/10 book. It shows how snake-oil sellers and mumbo-jumbo merchants created a bull market in dangerous gibberish—and how even many apparently intelligent people bought into their delusions. |
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PAPERBACKISBN 978-1-58648-348-7 Pub date: 06/15/05 Price: $12.00/15.95 Canada 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 336 pages Carton Quantity: 32 History, Humor, Political Science Selling Territory: WxUK, CW, EU Pub history:
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