Peter Watson in his book, The Modern Mind tries to give us a taste of the scientific, literary, artistic and other intellectual achievements during the 20th century period. He starts with the positiveness in the beginning of the century to the dark days of the world wars and modernism in the last decades of the 20th Century. This book mentions all those places that had grasped the overlapping histories of the fine arts, music, literature and science in some way or the other and its influence on humanity. Watson talks about this period in a fascinating way with focus on arts, sciences and sociopolitical issues. Read this book for the wealth of information to broaden the range of our thinking.
