The Free World Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand, David Colacci

eAudio - 2021

"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." — AudioFile MagazineIn 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 sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning 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, tec...hnological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind.How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility...

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Published
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Louis Menand, David Colacci
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size1006 GB
Parts38
ISBN9781250792365
Release Date4/20/2021
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size1006 GB
ISBN9781250792365
Release Date4/20/2021