The twilight of the intellectuals
Subtitle: culture and politics in the era of the Cold War
By: Hilton Kramer.
Publisher: I.R. Dee
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States; Intellectuals -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: In The Twilight of the Intellectuals, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. His book is also necessarily about the consequences of the 1930s and the 1960s, two decades when the political left achieved its greatest influence.

The Twilight of the Intellectuals is part memoir, part reflection, part critical analysis. It is filled with incisive portraits of people and their ideas, and with the often peculiar details of the urgent intellectual debates that tore apart friendships, sundered movements and institutions, and made the life of the mind so important in a way we can scarcely appreciate today.
Notes: Includes index.