4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Your host talks with Louis Menand about his new book “The Free World, Art and Thought in the Cold War”
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1:40.0 | In her famous 1999 book The Cultural Cold War, |
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