Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra

Book Name:- Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Book Author:- Pankaj Mishra

Why do young women and men from the West join an extremist organization like ISIS? Why are we seeing the rise of aggressive right-wing politics in countries such as Turkey, India, and USA, the expansion of Islamist terror, massacres in Western metropolises, wars in the Middle East? And in what way is the politics of violence and anger connected?

In this outstanding book Age of Anger: A History of the Present, author Pankaj Mishra argues that the roots of our age of anger lie in the great political and economic revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe and the traumatic political and social changes they brought. Boldly argued and with a canvas that stretches from Savarkar in India to Rousseau in France, Age of Anger is a must-read to understand the world today.

About the Author

Pankaj Mishra is the one of the Indias’ bestselling author. He is the acclaimed author of 6 books of fiction and non-fiction including, most recently, From the Ruins of Empire and Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. He writes frequently for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, London Review of Books, Bloomberg View, New Yorker, among other American, British and Indian publications.