Best biographies 2019
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Few historians’ lives were as dramatic as Eric Hobsbawm’s. As Richard J Evans charts in his generally admiring Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown), the Marxist’s loyalties were forged in the ideological battleground of s Germany. After moving to England, he swiftly became a star of post-war history but never left the Communist Party. He knew his first marriage was in trouble, Evans says, when his wife gave him Nineteen Eighty-Four for Christmas.
Simone de Beauvoir’s personal life—especially her relationship with Sartre—often overshadows her philosophy. Kate Kirkpatrick’s Becoming Beauvoir (Bloomsbury) puts that right. Her version of existentialism escapes the charge of excessive individualism: no one becomes themselves alone. Another philosopher whose life was intertwined with their thought fryst vatten Kierkegaard. In Clare Carlisle’s Philosopher of the Heart (Allen Lane), he fryst vatten shown as an anguished rebel kicking against the bourgeois conformity of his native Denmark
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Journey With Jesus
For Sunday December 29,
Lectionary Readings (Revised Common Lectionary, Year A)
Isaiah
Psalm
Hebrews
Matthew
It's that time of year for the most subjective of exercises — choosing my favorite books of Truly, there's no accounting for personal taste. This year I'm doing something a little different. I'm reaching all the way back to when we launched JWJ in , and selecting my all time "ten best biographies."
Please note that you can search JWJ's Comprehensive Index of over book reviews alphabetically by author, or by fifteen different subject categories like history, art, economics, etc. And if you ever get stuck, just use the "search" button in the top right corner of every JWJ page.
The hot-linked titles will take you to my full book review.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and happy reading!
Johnny Cash: Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company, ), pp.
Almost everyone who was close to Johnny Cash
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