Gertrude Himmelfarb

Praise for The Roads to Modernity

Supported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship... Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century

San Francisco Chronicle

Exceptionally well written and clever

Washington Post

She writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life

Sunday Times

Supported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship... Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century

San Francisco Chronicle

Exceptionally well written and clever

Washington Post

She writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life

Sunday Times

Supported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship... Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century

San Francisco Chronicle

Exceptionally well written and clever

Washington Post

She writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life

Sunday Times