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Title: Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader by John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone, Jacques Barzun ISBN: 0-252-02417-6 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: A welcome anthology of a neglected near-genius.
Comment: If John Jay Chapman is remembered at all these days, it is as an eccentric who once thrust his left hand into a coal fire in penance for mistakenly beating up a friend. This is as if Vincent Van Gogh were to be remembered only for cutting off one of his ears.Chapman was, in fact a brilliant and passionate writer in many genres, an unrelenting foe of social injustice,and a penetrating critic of American philstinism and materialism.The last anthology of Chapmans writings appeared in the late nineteen fifties , and was edited by Jacques Barzun, who has supplied a fine ,judicious introduction to the present collection.A welcome feature of the present volume is a selection of Chapmans unpublished letters--some of the finest everwritten. One of them includes one of the most brilliant and succinct analyses of Lincolns life and character that I have ever read. One can only hope that a Chapman revival will take place, and that someone will eventually get around to doiing similar anthologies for Sydney Smith or Albert Jay Nock.

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