The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas by Gal Beckerman

The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

Gal Beckerman

352 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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Gal Beckerman, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes us back to the seventeenth century, to the correspondence that jumpstarted the scientific revolution, and then forward through time to examine the engines of social change: the peti...

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