Cold War, Hot Culture

Louis Menand live streamed from New York

Louis Menand, the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Metaphysical Club, tells the story of America after the Second World War in his latest book, The Free World. With references to luminaries such as Jack Kerouac, Elvis Presley, Susan Sontag and James Baldwin, Menand explores the significant cultural figures of the Cold War period, when “ideas mattered, painting mattered, movies mattered, poetry mattered".

Supported by the Consulate of the United States.

Please note: This session has been moved to the West Stage at 2.30pm.

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The Hon Bob Carr holds the record for longest continuously serving Premier in the history of New South Wales and he also served as Australia’s Foreign Minister for 18 months. Since leaving politics, Carr has led a distinguished career as a defacto diplomat, author and academic. He is the author of My Reading Life, Thoughtlines, Diary of a Foreign Minister and political memoir Run for Your Life.

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Louis Menand is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His latest work is The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War.    

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