Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
James H. Billingtonis currently the Librarian of Congress. Before that, he served as director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has been a leading figure in American academic exchange programs, and served as past chairman of the Board of Foreign Scholarship, which directs the Fulbright Program. He is author ofMikhailovsky and Russian Populism and The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture.