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    Comments on The Lucifer Principle

     "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, immediate past president, American

    Psychological Society, author of Witness for the Defense and The Myth of Repressed Memory

    "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

    "Unlike anything you've ever read before.  An act of astonishing intellectual courage."  Leon Uris

    "a philosophical look at the history of our species, which alternated between fascinating and

    frightening.  Reading it was like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King: I couldn't put it down.

    ...Masterful.... Best Non-Fiction Book of the year." Mark Graham, Rocky Mountain News

    "Bloom's work marshals a quantity of evidence reminiscent of Darwin's 1859 Origin of Species."  Dorion

    Sagan, Wired

    "Addresses a topic that more timid and conventional sources are not inclined to confront: the nature

    and causes of human evil. ...Vigorous...fervent...a freshly viable theory of human social evolution."  The

    Washington Times

    "Great fun to read, and crammed with fantastic information."  Martin Gardner, creator and author of

    The Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" section 1956-1986, author of over 100 books,

    including The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

    "Provocative...explosive...feisty...a string of rhetorical firecrackers that challenge our many forms of

    self-righteousness."  Chet Raymo, Boston Globe

    "Elegant...the highest quality of brain food...[a] revolutionary new vision of human nature...[a]

    monumental work...heady stuff from a wonderful, original thinker...simply stunning...." Lawrence

    Hall, Newark Star-Ledger

    "The Lucifer Principle is a tour de force, a brilliant and seminal work."  Sol Gordon, founder, The

    Institute for Family Research and Education, author of When Living Hurts

    "Draws heavily on biological and anthropological evidence to show that human beings are not by

    nature isolated, self-interested individuals but have powerful natural inclinations toward social

    groups, and that much of the violence and cruelty that has characterized human history is rooted in

    competition between groups for status and domination."  Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs

    "Challenging" Horace Barlow, Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University

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