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In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Houghton Mifflin
November 2006
On Sale: November 9, 2006
Featuring: William James
640 pages
ISBN: 0618433252
EAN: 9780618433254
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The prize-winning biographer Robert D. Richardson has written a masterly and utterly moving portrait of James' pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling in the singular James family. William James, ten years in the making, draws on a vast number of unpublished letters, journals, and family records. Richardson paints extraordinary scenes from what James himself called the "buzzing blooming confusion" of his life, beginning with childhood, as he struggled to achieve amid the domestic chaos and intellectual brilliance of Father, brother Henry, and sister Alice. Through impassioned scholarship, Richardson illuminates James's hugely influential works: the "Varieties", "Principles of Psychology", "Talks to Teachers", and "Pragmatism".
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