Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. “Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity...each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works...of ten exemplary men and women.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review |