Intellectuals

By Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson, Paul Bede Johnson

Subjects: Civilization, modern, Intellectuels, Intellectuals, Intellektueller, History, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Vie intellectuelle, Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Intellectual life, Modern Civilization, New York Times reviewed

Description: 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.