“Vintage Gray. Black Mass is a sparkling synthesis of religious history and contemporary political analysis.… A passionate and powerful polemic.”

The Spectator (UK)

 

“A phenomenal book and a pleasure to read. Gray is a profound thinker, and often delivers his thoughts in clear shards of poetry.… Brilliant.”

The Halifax Daily News

 

“Penetratingly lucid.… Particularly distinguished in the way it addresses how academic and Beltway neo-conservatives like Jeane Kirkpatrick, Francis Fukuyama and Paul Wolfowitz constructed the ideological framework for the “war on terror.”.… The book presents one of the more incisive overviews of the origins and nature of the modern neoconservative movement.”

The Gazette (Montreal)

 

“An often rollicking, sometimes bone-crunching history of medieval barbarism, millennial cults, the rise of totalitarianism and the nadir of fascism, ending with a precise account of the lies and self-deceiving hopes that hurried on the invasion of Iraq.”

New Statesman

 

“A little Molotov cocktail of a book.… What’s impressive is the way [Gray] imbeds present political trends in a larger framework going back to the beginnings of Western culture.… The book challenges and provokes. For most readers, I suspect, it will tell them things they didn’t know.”

Houston Chronicle

 

“[Gray] is a master of intellectual history. He has a sharp eye and a vivid writing style. And best of all, he dissects the pieties of others without regard for party, ideology, faith or faction.”

The Ottawa Citizen