The Life of Bertrand RussellThe eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in 1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man. There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this remarkable and incisive book. |
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... American Adventure 10 Against the Stream 11 Into Battle 12 Colette 13 From War to Peace 14 Turning-Point A Long March Downhill 15 Start of an Experiment 16 End of an Experiment 17 The American Ordeal 18 A Member of the Establishment The ...
... American Adventure 10 Against the Stream 11 Into Battle 12 Colette 13 From War to Peace 14 Turning-Point A Long March Downhill 15 Start of an Experiment 16 End of an Experiment 17 The American Ordeal 18 A Member of the Establishment The ...
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... American womanhood, devoted to good works, Alys was just twenty-two, recently graduated from the Pennsylvanian women's college of Bryn Mawr. Alys and her family held out more than the attractions of a transatlantic lilt. Whatever their ...
... American womanhood, devoted to good works, Alys was just twenty-two, recently graduated from the Pennsylvanian women's college of Bryn Mawr. Alys and her family held out more than the attractions of a transatlantic lilt. Whatever their ...
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... American Quaker family, and to hear those young women speak of the elder brother as Frank, which I never heard any of his friends or his wives do. But the Russells never knew themselves or their proper place in the world: that was a ...
... American Quaker family, and to hear those young women speak of the elder brother as Frank, which I never heard any of his friends or his wives do. But the Russells never knew themselves or their proper place in the world: that was a ...
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... American woman in her later twenties was mild compared with that of Pembroke Lodge. 'They said she was no lady, a babysnatcher, a low-class adventuress, a designing female taking advantage of my inexperience, a person incapable of all ...
... American woman in her later twenties was mild compared with that of Pembroke Lodge. 'They said she was no lady, a babysnatcher, a low-class adventuress, a designing female taking advantage of my inexperience, a person incapable of all ...
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... American Quaker? In what might have been a Samsonian act of destruction by surrendering her grandson to the wild delights of man-abouttownism, Lady Russell induced Dufferin to initiate him into the sophistications of Paris as his ...
... American Quaker? In what might have been a Samsonian act of destruction by surrendering her grandson to the wild delights of man-abouttownism, Lady Russell induced Dufferin to initiate him into the sophistications of Paris as his ...
Contents
Principia Mathematica | |
The New Romantic | |
A Long March Downhill | |
Start of an Experiment | |
End of an Experiment | |
The American Ordeal | |
A Member of the Establishment | |
The Last Attachment | |
Towards a Short War with Russia? | |
Into the New World | |
Ottoline | |
Enter Wittgenstein | |
Ebbing Tide | |
An American Adventure | |
Against the Stream | |
Into Battle | |
Colette | |
From War to Peace | |
TurningPoint | |
The Genesis of Protest | |
The Rise of Ralph Schoenman | |
The Enigmatic Friendship | |
Once More His Own | |
Private Memorandum concerning Ralph | |
Sources and Bibliography | |
Notes and References | |
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