Name: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Paperback/Louis Menand
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 148.99 RON
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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World , every seat is a good one." --Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post " The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." --David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review Named a most anticipated book of April by The New York Times , The Washington Post , and Oprah Daily In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize -winning The Metaphysical Club , Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years. The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense--economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World , the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of "freedom" applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays , Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of