CBR10Bingo for Award Winner – 1964 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction This is a strange kind of book. It’s part popular history and part political critique. It takes the question of “anti-intellectualism,” whether this means an espousal of non-intellectual or anti-intellectual beliefs and actions, broad trends in anti or non-intellectual moments and looks for causes and consequences. He defines intellectual as someone who puts an emphasis on thinking and a “life of the mind” into practice, whether in professional or personal life. So not just someone […]
