I return to “From Dawn to Decadence” by Jacques Barzun.  As a brief introduction for those who did not see my earlier post: Over seven decades, Barzun wrote and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including science and medicine, psychiatry from Robert Burton through William James to modern methods, and art, and classical music; he was one of the all-time authorities on Hector Berlioz. At 84 years of age, he began writing his swan song, to which he devoted the better part of the 1990s. The resulting book of more than 800 pages, From Dawn … Continue reading WW1: the Dawn of Decadence