How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern DelusionsAn entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheens Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004s most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty five years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to reassert 'Victorian values'. In Iran, the fundamentalist