Paul Hollander: 3 books
Extravagant Expectations
New Ways To Find Romantic Love In America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting values, trends, and fashions—disseminated by popular culture, advertising and assorted "experts"—Americans...
Political Pilgrims
Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one...
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez
Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin,...