The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
I can't speak enthusiastically enough for Minois's excellent book.The Atheist's Bibleis more scholarly than Stephen Greenblatt'sThe Swerve(2011) and less playful than the philological detective work that Robert K. Merton displayed inOn the Shoulders of Giants(1965), but it offers comparable intellectual pleasure. Lys Ann Weiss's translation, moreover, reads beautifully.      —Michael Dirda