Title
The Free World: Art And Thought In The Cold War,New
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An Engrossing And Impossibly Wideranging Project . . . In The Free World, Every Seat Is A Good One. Carlos Lozada, The Washington Postthe 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 Reviewnamed A Most Anticipated Book Of April By The New York Times, The Washington Post, And Oprah Dailyin His Followup 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 American Culture In The Pivotal Years From The End Of World War Ii To Vietnam And Shows How Changing Economic, Technological, And Social Forces Put Their Mark On Creations Of The Mind.How Did Elitism And An Antitotalitarian Skepticism Of Passion And Ideology Give Way To A New Sensibility Defined By Freewheeling Experimentation And Loving The Beatles? How Was The Ideal Of Freedom Applied To Causes That Ranged From Anticommunism And Civil Rights To Radical Acts Of Selfcreation Via Art And Even Crime? With The Wit And Insight Familiar To Readers Of The Metaphysical Club And His New Yorker Essays, Menand Takes Us Inside Hannah Arendts Manhattan, The Paris Of Jeanpaul Sartre And Simone De Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham And John Cages Residencies At North Carolinas Black Mountain College, And The Memphis Studio Where Sam Phillips And Elvis Presley Created A New Music For The American Teenager. He Examines The Post War Vogue For French Existentialism, Structuralism And Poststructuralism, The Rise Of Abstract Expressionism And Pop Art, Allen Ginsbergs Friendship With Lionel Trilling, James Baldwins Transformation Into A Civil Rights Spokesman, Susan Sontags Challenges To The New York Intellectuals, The Defeat Of Obscenity Laws, And The Rise Of The New Hollywood.Stressing The Rich Flow Of Ideas Across The Atlantic, He Also Shows How Europeans Played A Vital Role In Promoting And Influencing American Art And Entertainment. By The End Of The Vietnam Era, The American Government Had Lost The Moral Prestige It Enjoyed At The End Of The Second World War, But Americas Oncedespised Culture Had Become Respected And Adored. With Unprecedented Verve And Range, This Book Explains How That Happened.
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