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Intellectuals

Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson
1996385 pages
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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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15 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    HarperCollins · 9780061669873
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Harper Perennial · 416 pages · 9780061253171
  • Audiobook · English · 1997
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786100521
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Phoenix House · 400 pages · 9781857997842
  • Other · English · 2009
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061871474
  • Other · English · 2008
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669927
IntellectualsIntellectual lifeModern CivilizationVie intellectuelleCivilisation moderne et contemporaineIntellectuelsHistoryIntellektueller