Chicago Humanities Festival | Louis Menand: Art and Thought in the Cold War @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The Cold War era wasn't just about power and violence, argues Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand. It was also about the art and ideas that would come to shape American and global culture. Menand tells the history of a time when American government lost its moral prestige, but American culture became beloved. Join Menand and fellow New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus for a conversation about Menand’s new book The Free World, an exploration of the intellectual and cultural climate of the Cold War era.

This program is generously underwritten by Bill and Penny Obenshain.

Order the book 'The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War' online at Seminary Co-op: semcoop.com/free-world-0

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