voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions" and reforms including American abolitionism. Weber proclaimed in "The Western Tradition" lectures of 1989: "...here we are at the end of the 20th century with a lot of people lonely in a Godless world—and now they are denied not only God but the solid substance of judgment and perception". "The world has always been disgracefully managed but now you no longer know to whom to complain." After he traversed the whole spectrum of western thought, tradition, civilization, and progress in The Western Tradition, Weber pointed at some of the profound ancient lessons from the Bible and laments the fact that many people today do not read it themselves. As an agnostic, Weber viewed the Bible primarily as an important piece of historical literature, calling it: "the epitome of wisdom, violence, high aspiration, and the hurtful achievements of mankind". He concluded his final lecture in the Western Tradition series by praising Western man as Promethean and then with Wordsworth's poetic phrase, "we feel that we are greater than we know." A 2010 biography by Stanford Franklin, "Eugen Weber: The Greatest Historian of our Times: Lessons of Greatness to the Future", presents Weber's life and works in grandiose terms as the greatest modern historian. Works The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905–1914, 1959. Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth Century France (1962). "Nationalism, Socialism and National-Socialism in France," French Historical Studies, Vol. 2, 1962. pp. 273–307 in JSTOR Satan France-Maçon: la mystification de Leo Taxil, 1964. Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century (1964). co-edited with Hans Rogger, The European Right: A Historical Profile, 1965. "Pierre de Coubertin and the Introduction of Organized Sports in France," pp. 3–26 from Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 5, 1970. "Gymnastics and Sports in Fin-de-Siècle France: Opium of the Classes?", pp. 70–98 from American Historical Review, Vol. 76, 1971. A Modern History of Europe: Men, Cultures, and Societies from the Renaissance to the Present (1971). Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (1976). "The Second Republic, Politics, and the Peasant," French Historical Studies Vol. 11, No. 4 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 521–550 in JSTOR "Comment la politique vint aux paysans: A Second Look at Peasant Politicization," American Historical Review, Vol. 87, 1982 pp. 357–389 in JSTOR "Fascism(s) and Some Harbingers," Journal of Modern History, Vol. 54, No. 4, December 1982 "Reflections on the Jews in