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In Freud's Paranoid Quest John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. Farrell's Freud is not the path-breaking psychologist he claimed to be, but the fashioner and prisoner of a total system of suspicion. The most gifted of paranoids, he deployed this system as a self-heroizing myth and a compelling historica...

(John) Farrell argues forcefully against Freud, but does something more important in the process: his reframing of the discussion of modernity has implications for every branch of contemporary humanistic inquiry, and makes this a timely and most significant book".--HARVARD REVIEW.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America's greatest defense attorney, successfully champion...

bTitle:/b How he Died, and other poems.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with su...

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From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave w...

Excerpt from A Fight Against Fate: A Drama in Four ActsAct II. The major's apartments in New York. Next evening. The major's terrible dilemma. The Sheriff is on his track, but he defies his tempters, and will surrender rather than allow his wife to be used to entrap and rob the banker. Alice, to save her husband, agrees to aid the robbers. At the critical moment seth interferes, saves the banker and defeats the thieves.About the PublisherForgo...

Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857, The Siege of Krishnapur is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers.

Excerpt from Hearts of Gold: A Drama Scene. - Country cottage, R., rustic chair down, L., wooden fence at the back of stage with wicket in C., tree near fence, R. - Time, sunset - Jessie discovered seated. L. - Charles smoking in doorway, R. Enter, Polly, C. E. Polly, (coming down) Jessie, I meta soldier on my way from school, such a fine manly fellow, and such a pretty uniform. Oh! you should have seen him: he reminded me of dear old Jack....

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Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland--in one Contemporary Classics hardcover. Inspired by historical events, The Siege of Krishnapur is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, whose residents find their smug assumptions of moral and military superiority and their rigid class barriers under fire-...

John Farrell is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is also the author of Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion.

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From a prize-winning biographer, this charts the life of America's disgraced 37th President.

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Excerpt from How He Died: And Other Poems Why did'st thou dream until thy joyful brothers Found where thou wast, and led thee smiling forth? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...