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GERASSI, JOHN Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Volume I: Protestant or Protester?
Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1989, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0226287971) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, Cloth, gilt, ix, 213 pp. illus. ports. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Please note: Volume One only. "Countless biographers have tried to unveil the real Jean-Paul Sartre without his consent or cooperation. Only John Gerassi--the 'non-godson' of Sartre, an atheist--was honored with the responsibility of being Sartre's official biographer. After drafting the commission with Sartre on the back of a menu at La Coupole, Gerassi recorded over one hundred hours of interviews with him between 1974 and 1979, and another hundred hours with Sartre's friends, colleagues, and enemies. Gerassi also immersed himself in Sartre's literary, philosophical, and personal writings. Gerassi had access to all of Sartre's files, unpublished manuscripts, and extensive notes for planned but undelivered lectures. Simone de Beauvoir gave many of Sartre's unpublished letters to Gerassi as well. Sartre trusted the integrity of Gerassi so completely that he considered Gerassi's biography to be the continuation of his own autobiography, Les mots. As a personal friend, Gerassi writes with advantages shared by no other biographer of Sartre. / John Gerassi is professor of political science at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. From 1956 to 1966, he was a journalist for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Inter-Press Service. His many books include The Great Fear in Latin America, The Boys of Boise, Fidel Castro, The Coming of the New International and The Premature Antifacist." - Publisher. Fine/Fine.
Offered for US$ 25.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 035479