<p> In his most powerful book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism?from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism. A sweeping intellectual history, <i>The Science of Liberty</i> is a stunningly original work that transcends the antiquated concepts of left and right.</p>