The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

by Gal Beckerman

Book Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - An "elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated" (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements--from the 1600s to the present--and how current technology is undermining them

"A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth-century France to Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152475918X
• ISBN13: 9781524759186
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"