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Intellectuals

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An edition of Intellectuals (1988)

Intellectuals

1st U.S. ed.

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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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Harper & Row
Language
English
Pages
385

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Intellectuals, Intellectual life, Modern Civilization, Vie intellectuelle, Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Intellectuels, History, Intellektueller, New York Times reviewed, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Civilization, modern, Biography, Moral and ethical aspects

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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.
First published in Great Britain in 1988 by Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Includes index.

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305.5/52
Library of Congress
HM213 .J64 1988b, HM213.J64 1988b

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Pagination
x, 385 p. ;
Number of pages
385

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OL2062182M
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ISBN 10
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"Over the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily."

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