The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment’s literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu." — Wall Street Journal

Now in paperback, a magisterial work of European history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to...