Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer, newsman, author, inventor, philosopher, diplomat and founding father of the United ...
Author Adam Nicolson takes an intimate look at the 17th century's diarists and letter writers and how they produced the first great age of self-depiction.
"Expelled from the Jewish community of 17th-century Amsterdam, Spinoza attained an enduring presence in Jewish thought ... Spinoza over the centuries is a most welcome and extremely useful addition to ...