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In this provocative and engaging collection of his essays and reviews, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture.
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Adrift is how art and cultural critic Kramer (Revenge of the Philistines) characterizes intellectual life in the US at the close of the 20th century. He argues that the politics of the radical left and the culture of modernism have lost all moral authority, that the Cold War was as much about ideas as military superiority, and that intellectuals who were part of liberal anti-communism ended up fighting on the side of their political enemies. He traces the decline, focusing heavily on the 1930s and 1960s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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