“Andrea Wulf’s engaging and often profound new group biography … a thrilling picture… At its most ambitious, “Magnificent Rebels” concerns the relationships between philosophy and politics, thought and action … Despite the complex arguments developed by its main characters, the book vividly conveys the drama of ideas … There is plenty of erotic drama here too, since the rebellion Wulf describes was sexual as much as anything … “Magnificent Rebels” shows with great lucidity how the Romantic desire to liberate the self still shapes our sense of who we are — or who we might strive to be” – Washington Post
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