James MacGregor Burns. (2013). Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

James MacGregor Burns. 2013. Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. Tantor Media, Inc.

James MacGregor Burns, Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. Tantor Media, Inc, 2013.

James MacGregor Burns. Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2013.

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In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, bringing down governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments that would ultimately reach every corner of the globe. Unlike most historians, Burns pays particular attention to America's intellectual revolution, beginning and ending his story on American soil. He discovers the origins of our domestic Enlightenment in men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality, and he highlights the role of thinkers like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. After all, it was the American founders, alone among Enlightenment thinkers, who actually carried through with their ideas. Today the same questions Enlightenment thinkers grappled with have taken on new urgency around the world: in the blossoming Arab Spring, in the former Soviet Union, China, and in the United States. What should a nation be? What should a citizenry expect from its government? Who should lead and decide? How can citizens effect change? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns's exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our nation shines a new light on these ever-important questions.

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     July 22, 2013
     You’d expect this book from an author who claims F.D.R. as a hero. Burns’s 18th- and 19th-century Enlightenment—the flourishing of ideas that’s the subject of this book—is essentially the New Deal writ large, the story of intentional improvement brought about by thoughts and action. Nearing the end of a long career, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (for 1970’s Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945) now adds to his long list of publications (each of which is a heady mix of history and reform liberalism) this captivating tale of the (mostly) men who altered the Western world’s way of thinking. Briskly and beautifully told, it’s basically a triumphal story, and therein lies the book’s only flaw: Burns scarcely addresses the longstanding conservative and communitarian opposition to the Enlightenment (especially its emphasis on individual freedom). The writing never lapses into academese, and it has the same propulsiveness of another, though vaster, survey of ideas: Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. Even if you can’t take this as an authoritative study of the Enlightenment, and even if it relies on the more detailed scholarship of others, it’s still a superb work of synthesis. Agent: Ike Williams, Katherine Flynn, and Hope Denekamp; Kneerim, Williams & Bloom.

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