Intellectuals

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A New York Times bestseller, this provocative book provides a factual and alarming portrait of many of the minds that have shaped our modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies the historian Paul Johnson exposes the lack of moral and judgmental credentials of Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Balsdin, Kenneth Tynan and Noam Chomsky. Having done so, Johnson asks "What right have these intellectuals to tell the world how to run its affairs?" A devastating work that frees the reader from the tyranny of morally bankrupt intellectualism.

"Here's a book that should have a cleansing influence on Western literature and culture for years to come." - Malcolm Forbes, Forbes.

"So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so right for the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hard time putting it down." - Norman Podhoretz, New York Post

385 pages, paperback