<p>From Freud to Babbitt, from <i>Animal Farm </i>to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, <i>The Modern Mind</i> is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.</p>