{"product_id":"free-world-art-and-thought-in-the-cold-war","title":"Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFree World: Art and Thought in the Cold War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLouis Menand\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374158453\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eStandard Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e880\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In \u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e, every seat is a good one.\" --Carlos Lozada, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high.\" --David Oshinsky, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 best books of 2021 One of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 A \u003ci\u003eMother Jones \u003c\/i\u003ebest book of 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow did elitism and an anti-totalitarian 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 anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e and his \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eessays\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage's residencies at North Carolina's 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 post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg's friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin's transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag's challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStressing 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 America's once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War | Louis Menand | Hardcover | 9780374158453 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1782206","offer_id":50768340517122,"sku":"1782206","price":30.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81JRAmiVL8S.jpg?v=1792116630","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/free-world-art-and-thought-in-the-cold-war","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}