Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul M. Johnson
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(Paperback - Revised Edition)
- Pub. Date: May 2007
- 416pp
- Sales Rank: 159,630
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2007
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Format: Paperback, 416pp
- Sales Rank: 159,630
- Series: P.S. Series
- ISBN-13: 9780061253171
- ISBN: 0061253170
- Edition Description: Revised Edition
Synopsis
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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Paul Johnson has written many books, including Creators, George Washington, Modern Times, and Art: A New History. He contributes a weekly essay to the Spectator and a monthly column to Forbes. He lives in London, England, and lectures all over the world.
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