THE FREE WORLD

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense?economic and political, artistic and pe rsonal. 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 t heir mark on creations of the mind.How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sen sibility d...[Read more]