Lies, Passions & Illusions: The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

A critical history of 20th century political movement by the Hannah Arendt Prize-winning author of Interpreting the French Revolution.

Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, François Furet was hailed as "one of the most influential men in contemporary France" by the New York Review of Books. In Lies, Passions, and Illusions, Furet's presents a cohesive, late-career meditation on the political passions of the twentieth century, drawn from a wide-ranging c...