About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780060916572ISBN:0060916575
Description: Good. First Edition. Moderate cover wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Age toning. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. 1990-Paperback-Cover shows some minor shelf-wear. Pages lightly age-tanned. ---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060916572ISBN:0060916575
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. Will ship 1-2 business days. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060916572ISBN:0060916575
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover book in good condition, slight cover wear, spots on page deck. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint, 1996
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperPerennial, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780060916572ISBN:0060916575
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 385 pp., biblio., index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Last flyleaf (blank) removed. Browning. CONTENTS: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Shelley, or the Heartlessness of Ideas; Karl Marx; Henrik Ibsen; Tolstoy; The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway; Bertolt Brecht; Bertrand Russell; Jean-Paul Sartre; Edmund Wilson; The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz; Lies, Damned Lies and Lillian Hellman; The Flight of Reason. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060916572ISBN:0060916575
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some small, light dings/dents to covers. Clean and unmarked inside, tightly bound. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Edgewear to the dust jacket with a small tear to the top spine and to the top back which has a 'wrinkle'. read more
Edition: First U. S. Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hard Board
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780060160500ISBN:0060160500
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean text, 385 pages. Looks new. "This fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world is an examination of the moral and judgemental credentials of intellectuals to give advice to humanity. " read more
Edition: Us ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780060160500ISBN:0060160500
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Jacket has slight wrinkling along edges. Some notation/underlining of text, in pencil only. Binding is tight. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 385 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. read more
"I really enjoyed this book. It did a great job of showing how the intellectual trends and movements I was taught to admire in my formal education were often the product of compensation for the same human weaknesses that prevent many of us from actually being "great." It helped me realize how important striving to be a good person is to actually being great, no quotation marks needed."
"This is a must read for anyone who is concerned about the people who have shaped thought and culture in the last century. A troubling work that will force you to reevaluate much of what you know about these individuals."
"Paul Johnson is quite right-wing but he dishes out some pretty convincing dirt on some of the West's leading intellectuals. Does it matter that these men -- and they were mostly men -- love humanity in the abtsract but often treat their families and acquaintances very badly? The inconsistency of human behavior really leaps out of this book."
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