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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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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Language
English
Pages
385

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

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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
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Intellectuals
1990, Harper & Row
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Intellectuals
1988, Harper & Row
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Intellectuals
1988, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 343-365.
Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.5/52
Library of Congress
HM213 .J64 1988, HM213.J64 1988

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Pagination
x, 385 p. ;
Number of pages
385

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Open Library
OL2140401M
Internet Archive
intellectuals0000john_b2w4
ISBN 10
0297793950
LCCN
88209301
Library Thing
23357
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"Over the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily."

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