Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Author:   Andrew Nagorski
Publisher:   Icon Books
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9781785788765


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London


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'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' - SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND'A gripping masterpiece' - BRETT KAHR, Freud Museum London March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plans to flee to safety. But one of the most famous men in the world, unable to contemplate leaving his beloved Vienna, is not among them. His name is Sigmund Freud. Saving Freud is the story of a great man's life, and of the extraordinary people who managed to prolong it, by convincing him to escape to London: the Welsh physician who brought psychoanalysis to Britain; Napoleon's great-grandniece; an American ambassador; Freud's devoted daughter, Anna; and the doctor who risked his own life by staying at Freud's side. In examining the histories of both Freud and his closest circle, Andrew Nagorski brilliantly evokes the story of Europe in the first half of the Twentieth Century. This is a tale of a great city, a collapsing empire, a rising terror -and of a man who would change the way we think.

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Author:   Andrew Nagorski
Publisher:   Icon Books
Imprint:   Icon Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781785788765


ISBN 10:   1785788760
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man. Ill, myopic, in denial and terribly vulnerable, this Freud is more human than any I've encountered before. Andrew Nagorski has an artist's eye for revealing detail and a novelist's ability to bring to life a long lost world and it's myriad denizens. -- Sylvia Nasar, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND


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Andrew Nagorski was born in Scotland to Polish parents, moved to the United States as an infant and has rarely stopped moving since, serving as Newsweek's bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He now lives in St Augustine, Florida, and continues to write for numerous publications.

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