Intellectuals (From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky)

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, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

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The controversial book about intellectuals in history from Rousseau, Marx, and Tolstoy to Satre, Noam Chomsky, and Lillian Hellman.