United States - Intellectual life - 20th
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A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney
$24.95 Read moreAfter a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney’s de
- Author: Bane, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1625346379
- Language: English
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
$20.00 Add to cartPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0743250621
- Language: English
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals
$22.15 Add to cartIn one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals’ relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility–one that was to be the guiding principle of his intelle
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 162097343X
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students
$18.99 Add to cartThe brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)–now featuring a new afterword by … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1451683200
- Language: English
