The free world

Art and Thought in the Cold War

The free world

Menand, Louis

Editorial Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Fecha de edición abril 2021 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780374158453
880 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
Dimensiones 237 mm x 215 mm


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Resumen del libro

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. 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 II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind.

How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of "freedom" applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage's residencies at North Carolina's Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager.

He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg's friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin's transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag's challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood.

Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America's once-despised culture had become respected and adored.

With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.

Biografía del autor

Louis Menandes profesor de inglés en la Universidad de Harvard y ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Historia en 2002 por el libroEl club de los metafísicos. Hace tiempo que escribe paraThe New Yorker.





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