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Louis Menand

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Louis Menand is an American critic, essayist, and professor, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.

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The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand
The Free World
The Free World
Louis Menand
The Free World
The Free World
Louis Menand
The marketplace of ideas
The marketplace of ideas
Louis Menand
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis Menand
Discovering Modernism
Discovering Modernism
Louis Menand
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance
Louis Menand, A. Walton Litz, Glyn P. Norton, George Alexander Kennedy, Christa Knellwolf, Lawrence S. Rainey, Christopher Norris, Marshall Brown, Alastair J. Minnis, Claude Julien Rawson, Maynard Mack Professor of English Claude Rawson, Jessica Osborn, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Ian Richard Johnson, Raman Selden, Rafey Habib, Christa Knellwolf King
William James in Brazil
William James in Brazil
Louis Menand
The Rise of the Research University
The Rise of the Research University
Chad Wellmon, Louis Menand, Paul Reitter
The Future of Academic Freedom
The Future of Academic Freedom
Louis Menand
Discovering Modernism
Discovering Modernism
Louis Menand
American Studies
American Studies
Louis Menand

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