The Public Interest

Marshall McLuhan: Double Agent

George P. Elliott

Summer 1966

Marshall McLuhan began as a literary scholar, an English professor, a free-roving speculative intellectual. His writings were to be found in the best intellectual quarterlies. The range of his erudition and the brilliance of his ideas were beyond cavil.

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