'An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.' --Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post 'The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high.' --David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review Named a most anticipated book of April by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Oprah Daily In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years. 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
