606 pages, 16 plates, cloth, dj, very good. 1st printing. From the dj: This fascinating account of a remarkable American family, the Jameses, traces the origins, development, and flowering of perhaps the most outstanding intellectual family America has ever produced. Its most famous members - William James, foremost psychologist and progressive thinker of his time; Henry James, great novelist and man of letters; and their brilliant sister, Alice James, political radical and lifelong invalid - were devoted siblings who suffered from an inevitable (and sometimes unconscious) sense of rivalry. The two younger brothers - Garth Wilkinson (Wilky), a war hero wounded in the Civil War, and Robertson (Bob), who had troubles as an alcoholic - felt the James family pressures and had tragic stories of their own.

JAMESES FAMILY NARRATIVE HENRY JAMES WILLIAM JAMES ALICE JAMES