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The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas Spells and then a snakeA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE An "elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated" (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements from the 1600s to the present and how current technology is undermining them "A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth century France to Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and contemporary Minneapolis." Louis Menand,