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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... at the door of the house, which is rather low, but pretty inside, & from which, had it not been so dreadfully foggy, there must be a beautiful view'. Her Majesty, who disappointed Rachel by her failure to wear a crown, took tea in the ...
... at the door of the house, which is rather low, but pretty inside, & from which, had it not been so dreadfully foggy, there must be a beautiful view'. Her Majesty, who disappointed Rachel by her failure to wear a crown, took tea in the ...
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... at the age of three to Pembroke Lodge, and to the menage which was so largely to make him the man he became. Thirty years earlier the house had been granted by the Queen to Lord John and his wife for occupation during their lives. A low ...
... at the age of three to Pembroke Lodge, and to the menage which was so largely to make him the man he became. Thirty years earlier the house had been granted by the Queen to Lord John and his wife for occupation during their lives. A low ...
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... at the centre of controversy, he tended to remember the lighter patches and forget the rest. In any case, Pembroke Lodge was no doubt part paradise and part hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old ...
... at the centre of controversy, he tended to remember the lighter patches and forget the rest. In any case, Pembroke Lodge was no doubt part paradise and part hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old ...
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... at the mercy of first love. He and Alys responded with the decision to have no children. The open avowal to consider contraception, a subject which had already brought poor Amberley to his knees at the start of his career, would have ...
... at the mercy of first love. He and Alys responded with the decision to have no children. The open avowal to consider contraception, a subject which had already brought poor Amberley to his knees at the start of his career, would have ...
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... At the Embassy, Russell's colleagues thought him a queer bird. Writing to Alys on the way to France he had asked if he must keep his teetotal pledge. 'I had much rather not, as it is awkward for a man to be a teetotaller abroad,' he ...
... At the Embassy, Russell's colleagues thought him a queer bird. Writing to Alys on the way to France he had asked if he must keep his teetotal pledge. 'I had much rather not, as it is awkward for a man to be a teetotaller abroad,' he ...
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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