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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

By Paul Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2007
ISBN
0061253170, 9780061253171
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
640 kB (654881 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
416\0
Time added
2015-11-21 16:22:17

Description

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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