From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural LifeThe bestselling (New York Times No. 3) history chronicling half a millennium of Western culture. From Dawn To Decadence is the French American historian Jacques Barzuns great opus. It is the product of a lifetime of separate studies which he now sets down in one powerful narrative, interspersing his entertaining analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present day, with biographical