{"id":109275,"date":"2023-11-17T16:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/louis-menand-it-is-modernity-that-makes-totalitarianism-possible\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:12:53","slug":"louis-menand-it-is-modernity-that-makes-totalitarianism-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/louis-menand-it-is-modernity-that-makes-totalitarianism-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Menand: &#8220;It is modernity that makes totalitarianism possible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>From literature, music, visual and performing arts, from sciences to cinema, from James Baldwin, John Cage, Andy Warhol, Elvis Presley, Susan Sontag and Hannah Arendt to Hollywood, Louis Menand built an investigation and analysis to the root causes of the affirmation of the United States in the cultural panorama of the West during part of the Cold War \u2013 from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Vietnam War -, but written in the form of a novel. Louis Menand was at FLAD for another edition of Meet the Author.<\/h3>\n<p>Renowned critic and essayist, Louis Menand won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his book <em>The Metaphysical Club<\/em>. 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