Farrell, Thomas2021-04-252021-04-252021-04This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219439See the above abstract.In my 6,500-word review essay "Louis Menand's 2021 Book about the Cold War, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight Menand's 850-page book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in connection with highlights about the life and work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). For example, I use Menand's discussion of Hannah Arendt's 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism to show how key points she makes can be connected with Ong's sweeping account of Western cultural history.enLouis Menand, Cold War, Walter J. Ong, Hannah Arendt, Marshall McLuhan, William K. WimsattScholarly Text or Essay