Intellectuals From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read."  — A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmu...