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Intellectuals
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Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

by Paul Johnson

Recommended by Marc Andreessen and Geoffrey Miller

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.

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 reveal...

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

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@DwightMannsbrdn This is a good (if old) book on the topic | Interesting books on culture and society I've read recently. I don't necessarily agree with any of them, but they're all useful and informative. >
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