Title: The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393059332
ISBN 13: 9780393059335
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New
Weight: 0.53 kilograms

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A philosophical defense of modern civilization traces the consequences of seductive ideas throughout history, analyzing how false nostrums have led to corruption within every type of government, in the academic world, and more, in a critique that includes discourses on such conflicts as Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War. 30,000 first printing.

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Robert Conquest is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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