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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand (Review)

By Timothy Sandefur

Apr 13, 2021
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New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2021
880 pp. $35 (hardcover)

Louis Menand is a writer of great gifts, whose 2000 book The Metaphysical Club is a masterpiece of intellectual history. Expertly blending curious biographical details with a clear exposition of complex scientific and philosophical concepts, it traces the development of Pragmatism from about…

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