National Review, April 21st, 1989
Intellectuals, by Paul Johnson (Harper & Row, 385 pp., $22.50)
INTELLECTUALS IS a book for people for whom "intellectuals" is already a dirty word. Paul Johnson offers case studies of 12 outstanding men of the mind who in private life were pretty nasty numbers: Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoi, Hemingway, Brecht, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, and Lillian Hellman. The final chapter glances at Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan, James Baldwin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Noam Chomsky.
What do all these people have in common? I'm still wondering....
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