Fire in the Minds of Men

by James H. Billington

Book Overview

This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 046502405X
• ISBN13: 9780465024056
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 677 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.