intellectuals

A brief biography of the African American educator and activist who helped found the NAACP and worked much of his life for the unification of people of African descent.

A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of eighteenth-century English writer and critic Samuel Johnson, discussing his formative years, his early efforts to succeed at writing, and his personal life and beliefs; and examining the work and struggles of his later years.

Discusses the influence of intellectuals on modern society, arguing that their impact on policies flows through their shaping of public opinion rather than their affect on powerful leaders, and examines the incentives and constraints from which intellectuals' views emerge and cases in which they have been grossly mistaken with regard to societal problems.

Examines the life of the Florentine intellectual, his relationships with contemporaries ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Cesare Borgia and Pope Alexander VI, his philosophies about power, and the legacy of The Prince.