04468cam a2200577 4500 545365564 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250792365 1250792363 156e5ea5-8db2-4bd0-b259-31a5a388fe99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5462529 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Menand, Louis. The Free World [Libby Audiobook] : Art and Thought in the Cold War. Macmillan Audio, 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 955MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 955MB. best nonfiction books of the year 2021. new york times notable books. Abstract Expressionism. robert rauschenberg. mid-century america. Transnationalism. merce cunningham. Intellectuals. books on tape. Hannah Arendt. George Kennan. Architecture. containment. Andy Warhol. audio book. literature. pop music. audiobook. magazines. John Cage. pop art. Poetry. HTML:"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." — AudioFile Magazine 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 the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of "freedom" applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage's residencies at North Carolina's Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg's friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin's transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag's challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America's once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. Colacci, David. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=156e5ea5-8db2-4bd0-b259-31a5a388fe99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=156e5ea5-8db2-4bd0-b259-31a5a388fe99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)