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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1944

Atlantic-Little, Brown, $8.95 Bertrand Russell is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most notorious intellectual. He has succeeded where other mathematical logicians have failed, in combining a genuinely profound mind with a seemingly endless capacity for hum-buggery, pettiness, and downright carnal lust. Few men have ever been so richly endowed with the ability to migrate effortlessly between the sublime world of philosophical contemplation and the often-lurid netherworld of political and moral extremism.

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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1944

Atlantic-Little, Brown, $8.95 Bertrand Russell is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most notorious intellectual. He has succeeded where other mathematical logicians have failed, in combining a genuinely profound mind with a seemingly endless capacity for hum-buggery, pettiness, and downright carnal lust. Few men have ever been so richly endowed with the ability to migrate effortlessly between the sublime world of philosophical contemplation and the often-lurid netherworld of political and moral extremism.