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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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.
Imprint | HarperPerennial |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 2007 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | May 2007 |
Authors | Paul Johnson |
Dimensions | 203 x 134 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 385 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-06-125317-1 |
Barcode | 9780061253171 |
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LSN | 0-06-125317-0 |