Foreign Policy Book Recommendations: Summer 2023
The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America [Book]
We tend to think of revolutions as loud- frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fuelling them have traditionally been conceived in much quieter spaces, in the small, secluded corners where a vanguard can whisper among themselves, imagine alternate realities, and deliberate over how to get there. This extraordinary book is a search for those spaces, over centuries and across continents, and a warning that they might soon go extinct.
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas [Book]
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War: Menand, Louis
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War: Menand, Louis
Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn't Playing Mike Nichols?
Is Meritocracy Making Everyone Miserable?
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War: Menand, Louis
The Free World' Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War
The Free World' Review: Cold War Culture - WSJ