Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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ISBN: 0061253170 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, May 2007
"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New...
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"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book ReviewA 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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