Intellectuals
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About this book
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.
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 2552 readers · 385 pages · ≈ 7 h 08 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Intellectuals?
About ≈ 7 h 08 m — 385 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Intellectuals?
385 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Intellectuals?
It sits on the Biography & Memoir, History shelves.
Is Intellectuals in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Intellectuals?
Paul Bede Johnson.