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    The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

    Louis Menand

    In The Free World, 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…

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    The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

    Louis Menand

    The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and personal.

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    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand (City University of New York)

    In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included…

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    Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, etc.

    Louis Menand

    Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, etc. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic…

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    Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected With Horticultural Affairs, Etc. From 1807 Up

    Louis Menand

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Pragmatism: A Reader

    Louis Menand

    A collection of writings on the philosophy of pragmatism, including works by psychologist and philosopher William James, the semiotician and founder of the pragmatist movement, Charles Sanders Peirce, and social…

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    The Future of Academic Freedom

    Louis Menand

    In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.

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    The Future of Academic Freedom

    In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.

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    The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University

    Louis Menand

    Crisp and illuminating … well worth reading. –Wall Street Journal

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    The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

    Louis Menand

    A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America –

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    Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected With Horticultural Affairs, Etc. From 1807 Up

    Louis Menand

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    Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs: From 1807 Up to 1892, with Portrait and Allegorical Figures (1892)

    Louis Menand, III

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    Autobiography and Recolections: of incidents connected with horticultural affairs, etc. from 1807 up to this day 1892

    Louis Menand (Columbia University New York)

    Autobiography and Recolections - of incidents connected with horticultural affairs, etc. from 1807 up to this day 1892 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks…

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    The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

    Louis Menand (Columbia University New York)

    A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America –

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    Memoirs of Hecate County

    Edmund Wilson

    Written in a fine, clear style that is not in the least dated, this is the riveting, comic, and ultimately very moving account of a man caught up in concurrent…

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    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand

    In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas, and whose…

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    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand

    In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas, and whose…

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    American Studies: Essays

    Louis Menand

    Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of…

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    The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand

    Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid–part history, part biography, part philosophy– consisted of four members and probably…

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    American Studies: Essays

    Louis Menand

    Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of…

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    American Studies: Essays

    Louis Menand

    Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of…

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    The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand

    The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the…

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    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

    Louis Menand

    A book about the creation of the modern American mind.

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    Louis Menand

    A book about the creation of the modern American mind.

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    The New Yale Book of Quotations

    A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations

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    Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context

    Louis Menand (Distinguished Professor of English, Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center)

    Menand shows how T. S. Eliot’s early views on literary value and authenticity - and his later repudiation of those views - reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of…

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    American Studies

    Louis Menand (City University of New York)

    This collection of review essays demonstrates Menand’s status as his generation’s premier critical talent ( Los Angeles Times ). From this thinker, known both for his sly wit and reportorial…

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    The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism

    This volume, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the modern critical tradition from the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century, to New Criticism and…

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    The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook

    Some texts translated from German originals.

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    The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook

    Some texts translated from German originals.

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    Civilization and Its Discontents

    Sigmund Freud

    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.

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    Workingmen’s Insurance in Europe

    Lee Kaufer Frankel,Miles Menander Dawson,Louis Israel Dublin

    The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some…

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    Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

    Arthur Koestler

    In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga. He was then sentenced to execution…

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