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The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker
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First ever biography of one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of late capitalism.
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.
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In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...
The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist.
Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography
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