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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... earlier his brother Rollo had been forced to leave the Foreign Office due to failing sight. Before the year was out his brother Willy had gone mad. None of this registered on Bertrand's infant memory. Neither did the death-bed scene ...
... earlier his brother Rollo had been forced to leave the Foreign Office due to failing sight. Before the year was out his brother Willy had gone mad. None of this registered on Bertrand's infant memory. Neither did the death-bed scene ...
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... earlier the house had been granted by the Queen to Lord John and his wife for occupation during their lives. A low white building, it stands on a slope dropping from the edge of Richmond Park towards the silver curl of the river. In the ...
... earlier the house had been granted by the Queen to Lord John and his wife for occupation during their lives. A low white building, it stands on a slope dropping from the edge of Richmond Park towards the silver curl of the river. In the ...
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... earlier. Alys, a transatlantic visitor of impeccable references, obvious good intentions and some experience of social work, smoothed the way for investigation of home life, domestic problems and the status of women. For six weeks the ...
... earlier. Alys, a transatlantic visitor of impeccable references, obvious good intentions and some experience of social work, smoothed the way for investigation of home life, domestic problems and the status of women. For six weeks the ...
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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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