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"Challenging. Read The Lucifer Principle and ponder." Horace Barlow, Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University
"A revolutionary vision of the relationship between psychology and history. The Lucifer Principle will have a profound impact on our concepts of human nature. It is astonishing that a book of this importance could be such a pleasure to read." Elizabeth F. Loftus, past president, American Psychological Society, author of Memory and Eyewitness Testimony
"Readers will be mesmerized by the mirror Bloom holds to the human condition, and dumbfounded by the fusillade of eclectic data that arrives with the swiftness and intensity of a furious tennis volley. His style is effortless, engaging, witty and brisk.... He draws on a dozen years of research into a jungle of scholarly fields...and meticulously supports every bit of information." Washington Post
"A freshly viable theory of human social evolution." The Washington Times
"The Lucifer Principle is written with energy and a flair for jarring contrasts. It documents example after example that scratches the reader's itches, then without warning draws blood as it punctures the hypocritical camouflage of our cherished self-delusions." David L. Hull, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, author of Science As A Process
"Great fun to read, and crammed with fantastic information." Martin Gardner, contributor, The New York Review of Books, doyen of the Mathematical Games section, Scientific American
That said, the above explanation really doesn't do the book justice; there is much more to it than that which I've attempted to lay out above, and I found the whole thing to be a completely fascinating read. It is written in a frank, easy-to-understand style, and the frequent historical and scientific references really help you to understand and contextualize the ideas that Bloom is trying to get across.
I would thoroughly recommend the book to anyone who thinks that, from what they've heard about it, they might be even remotely interested in it.
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