Full name: Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Author: Paul Johnson Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Philosophy, Non Fiction, Politics, Essays, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061253171 0061253170

Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity. Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles? How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan and many others are put under the spotlight. With wit and brilliance, Paul Johnson exposes these intellectuals, and questions whether ideas should ever be valued more than individuals. Similar books: Brave Companions by David McCullough The Modern Mind by Peter Watson Attila The Hun by John Man The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler Nelson and Emma by Roger Hudson Heroes by Paul Johnson On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Arbella by Sarah Gristwood The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1848-1999 by Niall Ferguson Genghis Khan by Leo de Hartog Mary Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt Modern Times by Paul Johnson