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Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system of thought. (p. 272)

I left my copy of this bio in Los Angeles - and all of the breathtakingly brilliant comments I had scribbled (in cryptic seal script, of course) in the margins. It's on its way to Baltimore, or so I'm told. I guess I'll wait for a bit before I buy another copy - provided I can find one.

I will be commenting at length on Matteson's "constructs," i.e. Fuller's multiple "identities" and "lives," a construct that make no sense at all. But one can simply ignore Matteson's half-baked devices and appreciate his superb characterizations of his subject as well as his masterful achievement in biographical narrative.

I will be commenting at length on Matteson's "construct," i.e. Fuller's multiple "identities" and "lives," which makes no sense at all. But one can simply ignore Matteson's half-baked devices and appreciate his superb characterizations of his subject as well as his masterful achievement in biographical narrative.

I will be commenting at length on Matteson's "construct:" Fuller's multiple "identities" and "lives," which makes no sense at all. But one can simply ignore Matteson's half-baked "construct," and appreciate his superb characterizations of his subject as well as his masterful achievement in biographical narrative.

The book shows promise. I want to read further.

A gripping historical narrative. Among the best I know.

I've embarked on a MS degree program in SE at JHU, where Kossiakoff taught. I have 35 years experience in the field, but wanted to review recent developments, etc. This text is quite thorough - an excellent introduction to a discipline that is much, much more difficult to practice than to describe.

Robert Tucker's work is by any measure the best analytical biography of Stalin.

Quite a thorough, illuminating, if somewhat dry, biography of FN.