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A big bestseller in the UK and right on about the U.S.: Francis Wheen's delightful "assault on all things irrational, inexplicable, dumb-headed and phony" ( The Financial Times ) What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of... read more

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Although 1979 may not have the same historical resonance as 1789, 1848, or 1917, it too marks a moment when the world was jolted by a violent reaction to the complacency of the existing order.

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  1. Francis Wheen (Author)
 

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