Pedro me ha prestado este libro que le regalaron por su cumpleaños, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the Wordl, y parece que le gustó bastante por lo que comenta
Por cierto, el libro de Wheen ya lo he terminado. Lo empecé a leer y no pude dejarlo. Es muy divertido encontrar un libro que da palos a la izquierda y a la derecha. Ha quedado tal que así.
De la contraportada
‘You have a choice: either read it or pre-emptively shred your brain in anticipation of the coming darkness’ Independent on Sunday
From UFO scares to dotcom mania, Francis Wheen’s hilarious and gloriously impassioned polemic describes a period in the world’s history when everything began to stop making sense.
What colonised the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, New Age mysticism, moral confusion and an epidemic of post-political era – including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama Bin Laden and Nancy Reagan’s astrologer – while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition, ‘voodoo economics’ and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
‘I wholeheartedly recommend that you buy this book: it will provoke smiles of acknowledgement, howls of disapproval and weeks of good conversation’ Financial Times.
‘This joyous, exhilarating, angry and deadly assault on the march of unreason… One can almost sense the ghost of Orwell eagerly egging him on’ Guardian.
‘Wheen cuts a Jonathan Swift-like swathe through the bullshit that threatens to clog our minds’ Daily Mail.
‘Deliriously funny’ Philip Hensher, Spectator.
‘Hugely enjoyable. Delightful reading’, Sunday Times.
