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~ Winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize - 2011, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction - 2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery with The Swerve, which recounts how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical, competitive court of a corrupt and dangerous pope, The Swerve is an intellectually invigorating, nonfiction mystery-in-the-archives thriller.
"Every tale of the preservation of intellectual history should be as rich and satisfying as Stephen Greenblatt's history of the reclamation and acclamation of Lucretius's De rerum natura from obscurity." -- Shelf Awareness