From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780694525485 (0694525480)
Publish date: June 28th 2001
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
It's good for me to read a book that takes me out of my comfort zone by reading a book like this one that mostly talks about the fine arts and written by a curmudgeon. If I had started reading this in the year 2000, I would have stopped, but today I found his obvious retrograde beliefs charmingly a...
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The best book I have ever read in this year and for the last 20 years (i.e. my whole life up to this point).This is a masterpiece. It has done so much to me, intellectually, artistically, and emotionally, that it deserves such a title. From Dawn to Decadence covers a 500 year period from roughly the...