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Strouse, Jean was born on September 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Carl David and Louise (Friedberg) Strouse.
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The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking philosophical and psychological works have won these brothers a permanent place at the center of the nation’s cultural firmament. Less well known is their enigmatic younger sister, Alice. But as Jean Strouse’s generous, probing, and deeply sympathetic biography shows, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right. Tormented throughout her short life by an array of nervous disorders, constrained by social convention and internal conflict from achieving the worldly success she desired, Alice was nonetheless a vivid, witty writer, an acute social observer, and as alert, inquiring, and engaging a person as her two famous brothers. “The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science,” writes Strouse, “Alice simply lived.”
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17 Audiocassettes. Narrated by Nelson Runger. Unabridged. 26 hours listening time. Noted biographer Jean Strouse has won the Bancroft Prize and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts. Her work has appeared in major magazines including The New Yorker and Newsweek. In Morgan, she creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking. Contemporaries described J. Pierpoint Morgan as "the financial Moses of the New World." He was also called "a beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power . . . " To separate the legend from the man, Jean Strouse Uses a wealth of uncataloged biographical documents from the Pierpoint Morgan Library. She shows J. Pierpoint Morgan in the full context of his childhood and health, travels and tastes, personal affairs and business relationships. Through Nelson Runger's thoughtful narration, this accessible biography becomes a fascinating audio production. Morgan sheds light on the life of a remarkable man, but it also helps us better understand today's international finance. "Jean Strouse is one of the foremost biographers in America . . . Morgan has finally met his match" ... historian Michael Holroyd.
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Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed nineteenth-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. She kept a withering journal of her life, wrote letters, and left behind a trail needing only modern signposts. She was an integral part of a family firm of scholars and writers. But she could never seize the opportunities that a few other women of her age did. There was no air to breathe in the intoxicating atmosphere where Henry was already writing spellbinding novels and William was professing at Harvard and reinventing psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.
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43 Hours 12 Minutes on 34 CDs. This is the first part of a two part series. Noted biographer Jean Strouse has won the Bancroft Prize and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts. Her work has appeared in major magazines including The New Yorker and Newsweek. In Morgan, she creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking. Contemporaries described J. Pierpoint Morgan as the financial Moses of the New World. He was also called a beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power ... To separate the legend from the man, Jean Strouse uses a wealth of uncataloged biographical documents from the Pierpoint Morgan Library. She shows J.Pierpoint Morgan in the full context of his childhood and health, travels and tastes, personal affairs and business relationships. Through Nelson Rungers thoughtful narration, this accessible biography becomes a fascinating audio production. Morgan sheds light on the life of a remarkable man, but it also helps us better understand todays international finance.
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(Alice James was the youngest child and only girl in a fam...)
Alice James was the youngest child and only girl in a family that produced two of the most brilliant individuals in 19th-century America. Her elder brother, William, became the foremost psychologist of his time and her second brother, Henry, its greatest novelist. Her story reveals a troubled, highly intelligent woman who struggled to extract a sense of meaning and self from a life that had every outward appearance of failure. She was articulate, politically radical, funny, wise, difficult and intensely involved with her brothers and friends. This portrait sheds new light on the history of women, on the nature of Alice's mysterious illnesses and on the members of America's outstanding intellectual family. Jean Strouse has worked at the "New York Review of Books" and as a book critic at "Newsweek Magazine" and as a freelance reviewer of the "New Yorker", the "Washington Post", the "New York Review of Books" and "Vogue". She has won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished American history.
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Strouse, Jean was born on September 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Carl David and Louise (Friedberg) Strouse.
Bachelor, Radcliffe College, 1967.
She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books from 1967 to 1969. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She has contributed reviews and essays on literary and other topics to the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vogue.
In 2003 Strouse was appointed the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A sympathetic but objective look at the younger sister of philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, the biography showed how Alice James struggled through various illnesses to create her memorable diary.
Strouse"s next book, Morgan: American Financier (1999), earned praise for its realistic, unexaggerated portrayal of Morgan"s personality and its explanations of complex financial topics in understandable terms. Strouse has also edited two books by Henry James: the Library of America"s edition of James" 1864-1874 short stories, and the New York Review of Books edition of James" last completed novel, The Outcry.
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(Alice James was the youngest child and only girl in a fam...)
(The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and disti...)
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Fellow, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Society of America Historians (president 2001-2002), Am Philos Society, The Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa (visiting scholar 1996-1997).