Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

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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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2007
Edition ‏ : ‎ Revised
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061253170
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061253171
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.94 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #366,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #158 in Philosopher Biographies #3,235 in Women’s Biographies #8,446 in Memoirs (Books)
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