Intellectuals
by Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson
IntellectualsIntellectual lifeModern CivilizationVie intellectuelleCivilisation moderne et contemporaineIntellectuelsHistoryIntellektueller
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
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