Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Title: Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Author: Louis Menand ISBN: 9780374158453 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2021 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: "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 2021In 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--economi