Harper Perennial
Intellectuals : From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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Intellectuals
Author(s): Paul Johnson
Review(s):
"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read."
“Here’s a book that should have a cleansing influence on Western literature and culture for years to come.”
“So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so right for the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hard time putting it down.”
ISBN: 9780061253171
Author(s): Paul Johnson
"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book Review
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.
Review(s):
"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read."
“Here’s a book that should have a cleansing influence on Western literature and culture for years to come.”
“So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so right for the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hard time putting it down.”
ISBN: 9780061253171