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Overview
"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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780061253171
- ISBN-10: 0061253170
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: May 2007
- Dimensions: 7.98 x 7.04 x 1.09 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.67 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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