Author

Publication

1976 - Little, Brown, Boston ; Toronto

Language

English

Word Count

140,250 words, Guess

Page Count

561 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing58566
  • Goodreads2884049

Classifications

  • LCCD568.4.L45 M28

Description

When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, Harvard professor of psychiatry Dr. John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence’s inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Mack’s sensitive investigation of the psychiatric dimensions of Lawrence’s personality. In addition, Mack examines the pertinent history, politics, and sociology of the time in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended and which impinged upon him.

Description

An historical and psychological study of the legendary Lawrence, detailing and assessing his motivations, decisions, actions, and impact within their familial, personal, social, and cultural contexts.

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Other Editions

  • A Prince of our disorder: the life of T. E. Lawrence. --Little, Brown1976-01-01

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