• One of the most acclaimed science writers at work today, Timothy Ferris has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, Seeing in the Dark, was named one of the top 10 books of 2002 by the New York Times. Coming of Age in the Milky Way and The Whole Shebang were selected as two of the leading books of the 20th century by the New York Times.

• Ferris has written for all the top publications and has appeared on the Today show, Good Morning America, Fresh Air, Charlie Rose, and others.

In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—“the best popular science writer in the English language today” (Christian Science Monitor)—makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free democratic societies from fewer than one percent of the world population in 1600 to over a third today.

Ferris deftly investigates the co-evolution of these scientific and political revolutions. He shows how science was integral to the American revolution but was misinterpreted in the French; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the totalitarian forces that have opposed science and liberalism—from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamist fundamentalism. A sweeping intellectual history, The Science of Liberty is a stunningly original work that transcends antiquated concepts of left and right.