Stranger Than We Can Imagine
By John Higgs
By John Higgs
By John Higgs
By John Higgs
Category: World History
Category: World History
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$16.95
Nov 10, 2015 | ISBN 9781593766269
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Nov 01, 2015 | ISBN 9781619026803
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Praise
“[Higgs] offers an idiosyncratic, always-provocative view of an era that many people would just as soon forget… Higgs crafts of disparate facts and anecdotes a story all his own. Full of unexpected linkages and brightly written, this is an absorbing tour of the 20th century.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“It was formerly held that a comprehensive history of the last century would never be written, by virtue of the fact that we knew too much about that frenetic and eventful period. Now, with the era’s ink barely dry, John Higgs demolishes this assumption with a breathtakingly lucid and coherent map of the tectonic shifts which drastically reshaped the human psyche, and the human world, within a hundred thrilling, terrifying years… An illuminating work of massive insight, in Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs informs us of exactly where we’ve been and, by extension, where we are. I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly.”
—Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and Lost Girls
“A beautiful, erudite, funny and enlightening tour of the widening boundaries of uncertainty revealed in the twentieth century, and who doesn’t need a book that explains quantum behaviour with a boxing bout between Putin and a kangaroo?”
—Robin Ince, actor, comedian, and author of Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club
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