The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical IdeasA provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements from the 1600s to the present and how current technology is undermining them "A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth century France to Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and contemporary Minneapolis." Louis Menand, author of The Free World We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets.