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“For liberals, it is imperative to read this book if you want to be more liberal.
Jaeheon wrote this review Tuesday, February 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
For conservatives, it is also very important to read it if you want to be responsible and humble because intellectuals in this book might give up values you cherish and yet promote the values they thought is critical, more than anything else. ”
“Paul Johnson is one of the finest historians alive, a Brit with high regard for America. This book is the first in a series, the second being Creators and the third Heroes.
Ron B wrote this review Tuesday, February 19 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
You'll learn a lot about how truly despicable some of these intellectuals are. That shouldn't take anything away from their ideas, but it does give you a glimpse to how they were formed. In addition, a lot of the ideas were entirely destructive, such as Karl Marx's.
A fascinating read by a wonderful historian.”
“Isn't easy to read Paul Johnson. Not always. In this book he is acrimonious. All heroes, people whose work was (and still is) important to the society, are destroyed - or something like that. Reading Intellectuals we get knowing things we never imagine, and perhaps do not need to know...but that, after all, are interesting. Intellectuals and heroes are people like the rest of us, are not them?”
eliana s wrote this review Saturday, January 19 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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