“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.
Author: Paul Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/01/2007
Series: P.S.
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.98h x 7.04w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780061253171
Language: English
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