Reflections on a Ravaged Century

"Illuminates the past with a mighty searchlight and clears away mountains of nonsense."—Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wall Street Journal

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian." As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to imp...