The People's Tycoon
The People's Tycoon

Author: Steven Watts

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-03-04

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0307558975

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How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.

Bertrand Russell's America
Bertrand Russell's America

Author: Barry Feinberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1135099553

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Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell’s travels in America covering the period 1896-1945. It is presented in two halves with the first a biographical account of Russell’s involvement with the United States, with special reference to the seven visits he made there during this time period. Throughout this section the most representative of Russell’s journalistic writings are highlighted and these are presented as full texts in the second half of the book. This collection is assembled to provide an understanding of Russell’s deep and many-sided involvement with the United States during his life. A documented account, it is supplemented with important letters, photographs and newspaper articles.

The Conquest of Happiness
The Conquest of Happiness

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 113675461X

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The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell‘s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion ofThe Happy Man

Bertrand Russell's America
Bertrand Russell's America

Author: Barry Feinberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0415662222

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Originally published in 1984, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1945-1970. It is presented in two halves with the first a biographical account of Russell's involvement with the United States and the second including the most representative of Russell's journalistic writings as full texts.

The Life of Bertrand Russell
The Life of Bertrand Russell

Author: Ronald Clark

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 1134

ISBN-13: 1448202159

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The 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.

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0415260140

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This acclaimed selection of Russell's early letters, available in paperback for the first time, reveals the full scope of his life and innermost thoughts up to the First World War.