Written in the turbulent years of the last century, 'The fall of idols' is a breath of a fresh air in the uncertain times of today. Frank demonstrates the true value of such conflicting time: one simply can not keep going on like nothing happens, or keep worshipping the same idols. In this book, the critique is addressed to four remarkable ones: the idols of the Revolution (change in the government will improve things), Politics (vote harder so thinks go better), Culture (popular imagination knows it better), and Idealism (self denial for the sake of abstract utopia). It is shown that none of it can not be the supreme value of an individual, inasmuch a human being is way bigger than any of that. It doesn't mean that a politics need to be abolished: it simply means that it can not become a central problem of life. Truth is setting us free once again, now from the tyranny of the old idols of man-made ideas.