The strange history of auditory hallucination throughout the ages, and its power to shed light on the mysterious inner source of pure faith and unadulterated inspiration. Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks the human psyche is capable of. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets reevaluates the popular conception of the phenomenon today and through the ages, and reveals the roots of the medical understanding...

A short history of American involvement in WWI, from initial confusion and neutrality, to eventual rejection of isolationism, to entry into the war, to the final refusal to sign the Versailles Treaty or participate in the League of Nations.