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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
William James In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Author:Robert D. Richardson 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 William James, ten years in the making, draws on a vast number of unpublished letters, journals, and ... more »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".« less