{"product_id":"the-left-bank-writers-artists-and-politics-from-the-popular-front-to-the-cold-war-paperback","title":"The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerbert Lottman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals. Herbert Lottman's chronicle follows the influential players-Gide, Malraux, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Koestler, Camus, and their pro-Fascist counterparts-through the German occupation, Liberation, and into the Cold War, when the struggle between superpowers all but drowned out their voices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Surprisingly fresh and intense. . . . A retrospective travelogue of the Left Bank in the days when it was the setting for almost all French intellectual activity. . . . Absorbing.\"-Naomi Bliven, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"As an introduction to a period in French history already legendary, \u003ci\u003eThe Left Bank\u003c\/i\u003e is superb.\"-Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An intellectual history. A history of the interaction between politics and letters. And a rumination on the limitless credulity of intellectuals.\"-Christopher Hitchens, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.97 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67946468212957,"sku":"9780226493688","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/IYeoqY69gy9780226493688.webp?v=1790801534","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-left-bank-writers-artists-and-politics-from-the-popular-front-to-the-cold-war-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}