Nicholas A. Basbanes. Stated first edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price on inside flap. Hardcover: Fine. New York: Harper Collins, 2005. No markings or writing in this like new book, 360 pp. Contains black and white photographs.
Basbanes asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller -- even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler -- by knowing what they have read. The books that many of these people have consulted, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.
A most stunning first edition/first printing in As New/As New condition in alike dust-jacket, from the author of such wonderful books as A Gentle Madness and Patience and Fortitude.
