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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

By Louis Menand
Narrated by: David Colacci
Unabridged — 34 hours, 55 minutes
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By Louis Menand
Narrated by: David Colacci
Unabridged — 34 hours, 55 minutes
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"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile Magazine

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize
-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense-economic and political, artist...