Anti-intellectualism in American life
1963
Richard Hofstadter, Richard Hofstadter, Adam Verner, Richard Hofstadter
Intellectuals
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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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First Published
1988
Pages
385 pages
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Editions
17
Publisher
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Language
ENG
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Published
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