Louis Menand

The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 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 à â â economic and political, artistic and personal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780007126880
• ISBN-10: 0007126883
• Artikelnr.: 62608542

Autorenporträt

Louis Menand is Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books include The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: WHAT THE COLD WAR MEANT
1 AN EMPTY SKY
2 THE OBJECT OF POWER
3 FREEDOM AND NOTHINGNESS
4 OUTSIDE THE LAW
5 THE ICE BREAKERS
6 THE BEST MINDS
7 THE HUMAN SCIENCE
8 THE EMANCIPATION OF DISSONANCE
9 NORTHERN SONGS
10 CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY
11 CHILDREN OF A STORM
12 CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY
13 THE FREE PLAY OF THE MIND
14 COMMONISM
15 VERS LA LIBÉRATION
16 FREEDOM IS THE FIRE
17 HOLLYWOOD-PARIS-HOLLYWOOD
18 THIS IS THE END