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BY ARTHUR HERMAN
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
To Rule the Waves: How the British
Navy Shaped the Modern World
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic
Rivalry That Destroyed an
Empire and Forged Our Age
Freedom’s Forge: How American
Business Produced Victory
in World War II
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus
Aristotle, and the Struggle for the
Soul of Western Civilization
About the Author
ARTHUR HERMAN is the bestselling author of Freedom’s Forge, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Idea of Decline in Western History, To Rule the Waves, and Gandhi & Churchill, which was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Herman taught the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian’s Campus on the Mall, and he has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, George Mason University, and The University of the South at Sewanee.
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