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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life
In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation-penned by none other than Mario Vargas...
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"Bronze Medal for the Arthur Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Zerilli-Marimo Prize, Academy of Moral and Political Sciences" Sergei Guriev is professor of economics and provost at Sciences Po in Paris and former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Twitter @sguriev Daniel Treisman is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The Return:...
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**WINNER, Sperber Prize 2018, for the best biography of a journalist**
The first and definitive biography of an audacious adventurer-the most famous journalist of his time-who more than anyone invented contemporary journalism.
Tom Brokaw says: "Lowell Thomas so deserves this lively account of his legendary life. He was a man for all seasons."
"Mitchell Stephens's The Voice of America is a first-rate and much-needed biography of the great Lowell...
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