The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

From Freud to Babbitt, from
to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo,
is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.