44. IMPACT of the COLD WAR on the WORLD with Louis Menand

Louis Menand is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Anne T. and Robert M.Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine and has served as an associate editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club earned him the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama.

Most recently he is the author of the triumphant new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, which was published in April 2021 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Louis Menand Book Recommendations:

Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss

Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham -  Carolyn Brown

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt

Warhol - Blake Gopnik

Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel

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