The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold WarIn The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizewinning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an anti totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of freedom applied to causes that