Filter By Subjects
Alzheimer's disease Patients Biography American Dream College teachers Great Britain Biography Critics Great Britain Biography Enlightenment Magee, Bryan Married people Great Britain Biography Philosophers Great Britain Biography Philosophy Introductions Women philosophers Great Britain BiographyFilter By Subjects
Alzheimer's disease Patients Biography American Dream College teachers Great Britain Biography Critics Great Britain Biography Enlightenment Magee, Bryan Married people Great Britain Biography Philosophers Great Britain Biography Philosophy Introductions Women philosophers Great Britain BiographyWells, Gully.
Summary: "Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London's liberated intellectual inner circle of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.0421 WELLS, DEE & AYER, A.J. WELMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bayley, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURDICH, IRIS BAYMagee, Bryan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999