A profile of the creator of Roget's Thesaurus describes his childhood fascination with list-making, a practice that was shaped by family tragedies, his run-in with Napoleon's authorities, and a productive relationship with famed physician Thomas Beddoes
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In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a "brisk and vivid"(Los Angeles Times) account of an obsessive scholar. Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one of the first to test the effects of laughing gas, invent…
A profile of the creator of Roget's Thesaurus describes his childhood fascination with list-making, a practice that was shaped by family tragedies, his run-in with Napoleon's authorities, and a productive relationship with famed physician Thomas Beddoes.
The author recounts daily life under the Nazis from Hitler's rise to power to the eve of World War II, describing the gradual tightening of Nazi control over every aspect of his life.