Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - Umberto Eco, Harvest Books

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this series of provocative, passionate, and wittyessays, Umberto Eco examines a wide range of phenomena, from Harry Potter, the Tower of Babel, talk shows, and the Enlightenment to &quot,The Da Vinci Code/&quot, What led us, he asks, into this age of hot wars and media populism, and how was it sold to us as progress? In &quot,Turning Back the Clock, &quot, the bestselling author and respected scholar turns his famous intellect toward events both local and global to look at where our troubled world is headed. &quot,