Intellectuals
(2009)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780061871474 MWT15398135, 0061871478 15398135
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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