Posted by Amanda on January 06, 1997 at 07:26:01:
I read a brief blurb in NY Times Book Review on a new book that's out on Bertrand Russell - "The Spirit Of Solitude" by Ray Monk. Anybody know anything about it? It seems to be a lambasting of a great man - The blurb states "an unforgiving portrait of a monstrously cruel man, this biography may be one-sided, but it contains the materials for a corrective to its hostile view." I'll have to wait until the library gets a copy because in no way do I want to support this sort of shit. In my opinion - Russell was a hell of guy - he's been influential in my own views - does anyone have anything bad to say about him? If so - let me hear it - maybe I'm one-sided on this issue myself.