How do we know who we are?: a biography of the self

Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-one biographers--writers such as David McCullough (the biographer of Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt), Wallace Stegner (John Wesley Powell), Gloria Steinem (Marilyn Monroe), Leon Edel (Henry James), Peter Gay (Sigmund Freud), Diane Middlebrook (Anne Sex...

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Main Author: Ludwig, Arnold M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1997
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Summary:Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-one biographers--writers such as David McCullough (the biographer of Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt), Wallace Stegner (John Wesley Powell), Gloria Steinem (Marilyn Monroe), Leon Edel (Henry James), Peter Gay (Sigmund Freud), Diane Middlebrook (Anne Sexton), Allan Bullock (Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin), and Arnold Rampersand (Langston Hughes)--and interweaving observations about his own practice, the author shows us how malleable, elusive, and paradoxical the self can be.
Physical Description:292 S. Ill.
ISBN:0195095731

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