The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Magic & Illusion captures the despair

captures the despair

and faced skeptics in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century

Stevenson is not only a great lawyer

and business interests in reaction to the Great Migration of Southern Blacks in the mid-twentieth century makes startingly clear how the violent reactions of an emergent white population found common ground with policy makers to segregate first a city and then the nation

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Magic & Illusion captures the despairWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word. In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery,