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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 ...

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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-e...

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In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Ja...

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Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction 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 Priz...

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Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionThe 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-...

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Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction 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 Priz...

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"e;An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one."e; -Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post"e;The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a ...

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Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction 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 Priz...

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When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features...

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Menand shows how T. S. Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity - and his later repudiation of those views - reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part ...

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When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features...

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The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives an...

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The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives an...

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The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives an...

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In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on free speech compatible with ...

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In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on free speech compatible with ...

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A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book -named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal"e;Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on th...

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This collection of review essays "demonstrates Menand's status as his generation's premier critical talent" ("Los Angeles Times"). From this thinker, known both for his "sly wit and reportorial high-jinks [and] clarity and...

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At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the r...

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The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "e;hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant"e; (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Met...

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The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concep...

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Here is another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" ("Booklist") chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand. "The Best American Essays" once again earns its place as the liveliest and...

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A collection of writings on the philosophy of pragmatism, including works by psychologist and philosopher William James, the semiotician and founder of the pragmatist movement, Charles Sanders Peirce, and social theorist John Dewey. Aimed at stude...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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A New York Review Books OriginalAn uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable cri...

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Autobiography and Recolections - of incidents connected with horticultural affairs, etc. from 1807 up to this day 1892 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic...

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Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, etc. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and sci...

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