Reviews for Revolutions revisited

The average rating for Revolutions revisited based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-28 00:00:00 Linda Leppert Leadership is the ability to motivate others to "want" to do what you wish to be done. Franklin, Burke, Lincoln, and Alexis de Tocqueville mastered the art of persuasion through political rhetoric with a finesse which can only be brought to light by Lerner's adept writing and studious research. Our forefather's knew that a degree of "manipulation" was required for the greater good, but also understood that such politics must be practiced with stiff restraint. I grabbed this book out of sheer boredom. I finished it tonight with a thirst for more.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-24 00:00:00 Paul Mann Very good so far as it goes, but it fails to address the new crisis for Enlightenment thought, which is the ecological crisis. He briefly mentions that ecologists question progress, and dismisses the problem in a sentence or two by saying that the answers to environmental problems are going to be technological. That is insufficient treatment of what many feel is the big failure of the Enlightenment project in a book that spends chapters dealing with other objections.