TY - BOOK AU - Lichtheim,George AU - George Lichtheim TI - Collected essays T2 - Nonpareil books U1 - 828.91209 LICB 21 PY - 1973/// CY - New York PB - The Viking Press KW - Lichtheim, George, KW - Socialism KW - 20th century KW - Journalists KW - Great Britain KW - Correspondence N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; [1.] There'll always be an England: Winston Churchill -sketch for a portrait -- Postimperial Britain -- From the ruins of empire -- Shaw, the Webbs, and the Labour Party -- Prometheus unbound -- Hobsbawm's choice -- A settled habit of behavior -- The birth of a philosopher -- The illusionist -- [2.] America seen from a distance: The politics of 1970 -- The private philosophy -- The new science: "Is there a sociologist in the house?" -- The triumph of the fact -- Bridging the gap -- The romance of Max Eastman -- [3.] Parisian impressions: De Gaulle -a summing up -- Leninism à la Française -- Catching up with history -- The nouvelle frontier -- When the light failed -- A French view of Israel -- [4.] Europe in decline: European civilization -- Taylor's Germany -- On the rim of the volcano -- The concept of social class -- [5.] From Lenin to Mao Tse-tung: What is left of communism? -- Stalinism -- The armed intellectual -- Lives of Lenin -- From the Finland station -- Happy birthday -- The new elite -- [6.] Marx and beyond: Soviet Marxism: from theory to ideology -- Western Marxist literature 1953-1963 -- Reason and revolution -- Sartre, Marxism, and history -- What is history? -- A Polish revisionist -- [7.] Thoughts among the ruins: Socialism and the Jews -- Simone Weil -- Adam's tree -- Grand old man -- Across the channel -- Anglo-American ER -