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Author Wheen, Francis.

Title How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world : a short history of modern delusions / Francis Wheen
Published London : Fourth Estate, 2004

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Description xiv, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1 The voodoo revolution 9 -- 2 Old snake-oil, new bottles 40 -- 3 It's the end of the world as we know it 64 -- 4 The demolition merchants of reality 78 -- 5 The catastrophists 117 -- 6 With God on our side 158 -- 7 Us and them 167 -- 8 Candles in the wind 185 -- 9 Right is the new left 214 -- 1o Forward to the past 230 -- 11 Voodoo revisited 262
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes biographical references, [313]-329
Subject Wheen, Francis -- Interviews.
History, Modern -- 1989-
Superstition -- History -- 20th century.
Reason.
Thought and thinking -- History -- 20th century.
Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century.
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Genre/Form History.
Interviews.
LC no. 2004353186
ISBN 0007140967 hardback