Intellectuals by Paul Johnson

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson

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Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.

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Intellectuals by Paul Johnson

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.
Paul Johnson was born in 1928 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has enjoyed a varied career, which includes army service and international journalism. He has contributed to many of the world's most famous newspapers and magazines and has travelled to all five continents to report events, interview presidents and prime ministers for the press and TV, and to lecture to academic and business audiences.
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ISBN 13 9781842120392
ISBN 10 1842120395
Titre Intellectuals
Auteur Paul Johnson
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Orion Publishing Co
Année de publication 2000-04-06
Nombre de pages 400
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