Monumental Fury

“Iconoclasts for the most part operate feverishly to purify the past by destroying images; Matthew Fraser’s excellent Monumental Fury, by contrast, operates at cooler temperature engagingly, constructively, and carefully to record the very long and illuminating history of image destruction in Western cultures. I’d much rather spend my time with this rich book.” - James Simpson, Harvard University, author of Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition

Matthew Fraser is a professor of communications and international politics at the American University of Paris. Formerly, he was a senior research fellow for INSEAD, editor in chief and a columnist for Canada’s National Post, host of CBC’s primetime TV show Inside Media, professor of communications at Ryerson University in Toronto, and a reporter for the Montreal Gazette and the Globe and Mail. He is the author of In Truth: A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America, among others. He was educated at Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and La Sorbonne-Panthéon, and holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.