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Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Paul Johnson

HarperCollins · 2009-10-13

Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

HistoryBiography & MemoirLiterary CriticismBiographyAutobiographyHistory

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Biography & Memoir
  • Good for readers interested in biography
  • Good for fans of History

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  • Themes: Biography, Autobiography, History.
  • Reading lane: Biography & Memoir and History.
  • Publisher: HarperCollins.

About This Book

"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...

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"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.