books by Louis Menand     books:     Louis Menand      The Best American Essays 2004 (The Best American Series) Houghton Mifflin, 2004 22 tasty, nourishing servings of brain food "The Best American Short Stories" may be more popular, but "The Best American Essays" anthology is an even better choice for readers seeking the utmost in nourishment for the brain. The twenty-two selections chosen by Louis Menand, which cover a wide variety of ...             Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 Valuable for General Reader Freud continued writing into his old age. The three books* of this period are highly suitable for the general reader, that is, every seeker of knowledge.In 1930 when he was 74, He wrote "Civilization and Its Discontents" which, in its first words, scolds us gently. ...             To the Finland Station (New York Review Books Classics) Edmund Wilson NYRB Classics, 2003 Become a fly on the wall of Marx's study. That's how this book makes you feel. Wilson's mastery of prose, artistry of language and clarity of vision draws you into the lives of his subjects so you feel you're there. You can almost smell the smoke from Marx's pipe as he writes, feel the ...             The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics) Lionel Trilling NYRB Classics, 2008 The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise–and ...             Pragmatism: A Reader Louis Menand Vintage, 1997 Eye-openingly Good! This book is astounding! It manages to accomplish in around 500 pages the twin tasks of giving a functional outline of the rise and rise of pragmatic thought and also to give examples, old and new, of that same pragmatic thought. The three more well-known "founders" ...             American Studies Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 Inside Baseball But I Enjoyed Most Every Inning! I had only read a couple of the essays in this collection when they first appeared in the NYReview of Books, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. As the amorphous title of the book suggests, its sum is not much greater than its parts, and yet I found most of the parts ...             Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context Louis Menand Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of ...             The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Brilliant, ambitious, dense The Metaphysical Club is a brilliant, ambitious book - the chronicle of pragmatism's rise as a governing philosophy in the decades following the Civil War. But for all its virtues, I'm surprised this book won the Pulitzer Prize. This is pretty dense stuff. Despite ...             The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003 politics as usual The most memorable character in >Manchurian Candidate< has to be the Chinese psychiatrist Yen Lo who supervises the brainwashing of the American GIs. He is intelligent and cultured, with an Oriental reserve that conceals his killer's instinct. The brainwashed GIs ...             The Future of Academic Freedom University Of Chicago Press, 1998 The issue of academic freedom and its centrality to the debates raging on campuses today is the focus of these essays by a weighty assemblage of academics. Ronald Dworkin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Louis Menand, and Edward W. Said and others grapple with the issues of campus speech codes, the limits of academic freedom, and the ethics of academics. ...             Memoirs of Hecate County (New York Review Books Classics) Edmund Wilson NYRB Classics, 2004 The Critic as Writer "I took to walking in the evenings on Fourteenth Street, which had a certain animation and variety. I got to like the big-hipped cat-faced women of the photographs shown as lures out in front of the burlesque show; the announcements of moving picture palaces bejeweled ...             The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand PerfectBound, 2002             The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand Flamingo, 2001             The New Gatekeepers: Emerging Challenges to Free Expression in the Arts Amy Adler, Carol Becker, ... National Arts Journalism Program, 2004 Disputes over free expression in the arts have always loomed as struggles between creativity and repression, transgression and outrage, candor and hypocrisy. But while high-profile shootouts at art museums and less visible skirmishes at schools, libraries, and theaters persist, overt censorship is no longer the only, or the most dire, threat to ...             Autobiography And Recollections Of Incidents Connected With Horticultural Affairs: From 1807 Up To 1892, With ... 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