Intellectuals - Paul Johnson (Signed)

In his provocative book, Paul Johnson examines the moral and judgemental credentials of intellectuals to give advice to humanity. How great is their respect for truth? How do they apply their public principles to their private lives? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? 

These questions are attacked in a series of case studies. Rosseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan and others are revealed in incisive portraits, as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory.