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Intellectuals

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"Over the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily."
385 pages
~6h 25min to read
Published 1996 HarperCollins Publishers 1 views
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0061253170, 9780061253171
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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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