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Fredericton New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2021. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, gilt spine,388 pages : illustrations (so… More...
Fredericton New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2021. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, gilt spine,388 pages : illustrations (some colour), portrait, bibliography, index.Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly's paintings were vibrant and colourful, featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on the page. In contrast, Bruno painted near-abstract cityscapes, stunning landscapes, and distorted bodies wracked with inner torment that are unique in Canadian art. In this book, acclaimed author Nathan M. Greenfield brings to light the private and public lives of two of the most important figures in 20th century Canadian art. Combining archival research with Molly's diaries and letters, interviews with friends and contemporaries, and an analysis of paintings by both artists, he develops an intimate portrait of their life and art: their critical acclaim, commercial success and a turbulent marriage that lasted over fifty years -- until Bruno's death in 2012. The biography covers Bruno and Molly's artistic output, their marriage, and their wider lives. Greenfield covers their whole lives, including discussion of their work as war artists in the second world war and their later careers."-- Provided by publisher., Goose Lane Editions, 2021, 6, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997, 4<
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997, 4<
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archiva… More...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. 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[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality.been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<
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[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality.been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<
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Fredericton New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2021. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, gilt spine,388 pages : illustrations (so… More...
Fredericton New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2021. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, gilt spine,388 pages : illustrations (some colour), portrait, bibliography, index.Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly's paintings were vibrant and colourful, featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on the page. In contrast, Bruno painted near-abstract cityscapes, stunning landscapes, and distorted bodies wracked with inner torment that are unique in Canadian art. In this book, acclaimed author Nathan M. Greenfield brings to light the private and public lives of two of the most important figures in 20th century Canadian art. Combining archival research with Molly's diaries and letters, interviews with friends and contemporaries, and an analysis of paintings by both artists, he develops an intimate portrait of their life and art: their critical acclaim, commercial success and a turbulent marriage that lasted over fifty years -- until Bruno's death in 2012. The biography covers Bruno and Molly's artistic output, their marriage, and their wider lives. Greenfield covers their whole lives, including discussion of their work as war artists in the second world war and their later careers."-- Provided by publisher., Goose Lane Editions, 2021, 6, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997, 4<
1997, ISBN: 9780393040869
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Crease… More...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997, 4<
1997
ISBN: 9780393040869
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archiva… More...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997, 5<
1997, ISBN: 0393040860
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[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Mod… More...
[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality.been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<
1997, ISBN: 0393040860
Hardcover
[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soile… More...
[EAN: 9780393040869], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York], BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality.been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one of Kinsey's harshest critics, denounced his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, saying, "It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America." Yet, forty years after his death, Kinsey remains the most influential and respected figure in the field of sex research and is widely regarded as the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In this brilliant, path-breaking biography, more than twenty-five years in the making, James H. Jones, author of the prize-winning Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and libraries and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Jones shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer, a zealot, who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Indeed, Jones demonstrates conclusively that the man Time magazine described as "an almost monotonously normal human being" was nothing of the sort. Rather, he was by any measure an extraordinary man, and a man with secrets--secrets that shaped his professional agenda and provided the spring-coil vitality that fueled his fierce work ethic. Unlike most biographers, Jones pays close attention to every phase of his subject's life. Drawing upon extensive research on Kinsey's youth, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his troubled upbringing. Weaving back and forth between the sexual tensions of the culture and the repressive atmosphere of Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones argues that Kinsey emerged from his childhood with deep psychological wounds, crippled at the core but nevertheless determined to rescue humanity from the emotional scars and sexual repression he had suffered. Tracing his subject's intellectual pilgrimage from religion to science, Jones shows how Kinsey's training in zoology and career as an entomologist provided both the philosophy of science and the methodological tools that later shaped his approach to sex research. Revealing, never-before-disclosed facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich the portrait of a complicated, driven man who was obsessed with imposing his will on others, even as he transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Much more than the biography of one man, Jones has given us the secret history of our century. He shows that ours is a culture of two-way mirrors and hidden truths, that each of us has a private identity unknown to others but sovereign unto ourselves. This was the terra incognita that captivated Kinsey, and no biography has explored the interior space of its subject or of our culture in more depth or with greater humanity. In addition, the book sparkles with evocative sketches of each of the domains Kinsey moved through, from the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey, to Boy Scout camps in the White Mountains, to whore houses in Indianapolis, to the steamy sexual subcultures of Times Square, and to his private tour of the sexual underworld of Europe. In short, Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the most intensive cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. James H. Jones teaches history at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he began his work on Kinsey. His first book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, won national acclaim and awards and has since been the subject of documentary films. Jones and his family divide their time between Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<
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The hidden life of Alfred C. Kinsey, the principal architect of the sexual revolution.
In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey cultivated of disinterested biologist was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. By any measure he was an extraordinary man―and a man with secrets.Drawing upon never before disclosed facts about Kinsey's childhood, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his tortured upbringing. Between the sexual tensions of the culture and Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones depicts Kinsey emerging from childhood with psychological trauma but determined to rescue humanity from the emotional and sexual repression he had suffered. New facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich this portrait of the complicated, troubled man who transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. 30 black-and-white photogr, This astonishing biography of Alfred Kinsey, the man who launched the sexual revolution, is graphically frank about his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream sexual practices (including masochism and voyeurism), yet historian James Jones doesn't exploit the material for titillation. Instead, Jones argues compassionately and persuasively that Kinsey's personal sexual demons sparked his campaign to demolish Victorian taboos about sex by gathering the scientific data eventually published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Jones reveals that the data were hardly as unbiased as Kinsey claimed, but it was world-shaking nonetheless. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life is a magnificent work of cultural history as well as a sensitive study of a troubled individual.
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