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Intellectuals [EPUB ebook]
From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

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"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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 416 ● ISBN 9780061871474 ● Publisher HarperCollins ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5639380 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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