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.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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Author(s)Johnson, Paul
PublisherHarper Perennial
ISBN / ASIN0061253170
ISBN-139780061253171
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank109,473
CategoryBiography & Autobiography
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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