The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History

A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world.

The publication of The Dragons of Expectation in 2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading intellectual and one of the world's great humanists. In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds; to often disastrous effects. In what Pu...