The major new book from Dutch historian and internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer at the Correspondent, is one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. His last book, Utopia for Realists, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Holland. @rcbregman | rutgerbregman.com
An optimistic historian sifts through the past in his mission to
prove that mankind might not be so bad . . . A superb read - brisk,
accessible and full of great stories
*Sunday Times*
This is the book we need right now . . . Entertaining, uplifting .
. . If Bregman is right, this book might just make the world a
kinder place
*Telegraph*
Here, we visit the blitz, Lord of the Flies – both the novel and a
very different real-life version – a Siberian fox farm, an infamous
New York murder and a host of discredited psychological studies . .
. There’s a great deal of reassuring human decency to be taken from
this bold and thought-provoking book . . . It makes a welcome
change to read such a sustained and enjoyable tribute to our better
natures
*Observer*
Filled with compelling tales of human goodness . . . Bregman’s book
is a thrilling read and it represents a necessary correction
*The Times*
Humankind displays [Bregman's] gift for synthesising libraries full
of academic research into spellbinding reads. I whizzed through
Humankind’s 480 pages, engrossed
*Financial Times*
The notion that we already have the capacity to radically improve
the world is both an exhilarating and a daunting one
*New Statesman*
Bregman argues convincingly that what we teach and report about
ourselves, we become . . . Bold, entertaining and uplifting
*Spectator*
Bregman’s book is something of a beacon at the moment, when many
are looking for values to profess in our traumatised and altered
society . . . People have started to talk about this book: perhaps
the moment of this entirely positive, heartening message is about
to come
*Scotsman*
Lively and illuminating . . . Even a few months ago, [the idea that
most people behave well in most circumstances] might have seemed,
as Bregman claims, “a radical idea”. The coronavirus crisis has
made it blindingly obvious
*Irish Times*
This book must be read by as many people as possible - only when
people change their view of human nature will they begin to believe
in the possibility of building a better world
*Grace Blakeley*
One of the most powerful books I have read for a long time, and a
book I have absolutely no hesitation about saying everyone needs to
read, and that it will change your life if you do so
*Matthew Taylor, RSA*
Rutger Bregman’s extraordinary new book is a revelation . . .
Humankind is masterful in its grasp of history, both ancient and
modern
*Susan Cain, author of 'Quiet'*
Cynicism is a theory of everything, but, as Rutger Bregman
brilliantly shows, an elective one. This necessary book widens the
aperture of possibility for a better future, and radically
*David Wallace-Wells, author of 'The Uninhabitable Earth'*
This important book is almost preternatural in its timing and
argument. Rutger Bregman is poetic in his rejection of a Hobbesian
view of our true natures. The gigantic upheavals of 2020 have
proved him right. Reading this during lockdown changed the way I
think about our humanity. We are good
*Dan Snow*
Rutger Bregman is out on his own, thinking for himself, using
history to give the rest of us a chance to build a much better
future than we can presently imagine
*Timothy Snyder, Holocaust historian and author of 'On
Tyranny'*
A devastating demolition of the misanthrope’s mantra. A beacon of
hope for a frighted world
*Professor Danny Dorling, author of 'Inequality and the 1%'*
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