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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 Editors'' Choice

One of The New York Times''s 100 best books of 2021 One of The Washington Post''s 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 A Mother Jones best book of 2021

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 senseeconomic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizewinning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of

The Free World Art and Thought in the Cold War

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: 20/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9780374158453, 978-0374158453
      ISBN10: 0374158452

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Editors'' Choice

      One of The New York Times''s 100 best books of 2021 One of The Washington Post''s 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 A Mother Jones best book of 2021

      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 senseeconomic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizewinning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of

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