John mccormick george santayana biography

Review

"By the end of McCormick's biography, I had recalled what I knew of Santayana and had learned much more than I knew before.

I appreciated again the urbanity, the erudition, the critique of intellectual pretensions, the sardonic and still pertinent observations on our genteel tradition."

&#x;Richard John Neuhaus, First Things

The fullest and most informed biography of Santayana to dateNo other study of Santayana blends so perceptively the facts of his life with his intellectual divagations.

&#x;Daniel Aaron, New Republic   

McCormick&#x;s biography is true to Santayana&#x;s tragic vision.

&#x;Paul G.

Kuntz, American Historical Review

 McCormick lucidly, intelligently reclaims for our time one of the most original minds of this century.   

&#x;Charles P. Corn, San Francisco Examiner

Do we need a biography when Santayana himself, a master of English style