{"product_id":"america-and-the-young-intellectual-harold-stearns-9781396322464","title":"America and the Young Intellectual","description":"\u003cp\u003eA prolific critic, author, essayist and journalist, \"America and the Young Intellectual\" is the book that launched Harold Stearns as a public figure. The message in this book could not have come at a better time, and even now, a century later, it is still timely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrustrated by the state of the American society and what he saw as America's oppression of its free spirit, Stearns wrote this book as a motivation to young American intellectuals to break away from the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Stearns ask a crucial question, \"How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter reading this book, you'll find that the answer to this question lies in the heart of every young and intellectual American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Stearns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1396322469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781396322464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Left of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Harold Stearns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241260626175,"sku":"9781396322464","price":20.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a50fd1bf-8312-42d7-8559-f90814c97e9f.jpg?v=1772653575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/america-and-the-young-intellectual-harold-stearns-9781396322464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}