Francis Wheen
Birth date: January 22, 1957
Francis Wheen's Books
This is so witty and funny! Especially compared to „classic“ utopias. Wells was obviously well versed in the tradition of utopian writing and took it upon himself to create a modern version of it by learning from the mistakes of past writers instead of repeating them and by adding a good portion of ...
ForewordChronologyIntroductionA Note on the TextChina--Revolution in China and in Europe--[The Anglo-Chinese Conflict]--[Russian Trade with China]--[English Atrocities in China]--History of the Opium Trade [I]--History of the Opium Trade [II]--[The Anglo-Chinese Treaty]--The British and Chinese Trea...
This one had me torn between agreeing with him and wanting to slap him for lumping all belief systems into the melange of stupidity. However it is a book several people should read about how spin has blinded us to reality.
I had to read Das Kapital when I was studying political science for my undergrad degree. That was during the Cold War, and so politics was of course colored by Soviet/American relations, so it was necessary to understand communism and socialism in order to understand the politics of the time. I li...
As much as I admire H.G. Wells, I still always find myself struggling to finish utopian novels. Despite his interesting ideas and the honorific of "classic" and "canonical", I'm afraid that I fell into the same complaints with A Modern Utopia as with many others: it is dry, overly-reliant on descrip...
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