Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
by James Billington (Author)
James Billington served as Librarian of Congress for nearly three decades and was one of the most credentialed historians of the twentieth century. In Fire in the Minds of Men he traces the origins of modern revolutionary ideology — and finds them not primarily in Enlightenment rationalism, as the standard account holds, but in the occultism, secret societies, and esoteric brotherhoods of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe. This is the definitive scholarly history of where the radical revolutionary Left came from, written by an insider with impeccable academic credentials and no axe to grind. …
