American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947 - Hardcover

Reich, Wilhelm

9780374104368: American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947

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ISBN 10: 0374104360 ISBN 13: 9780374104368

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

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Rese�a del editor

"I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these words, Wilhelm Reich described his experience as an "enemy alien" imprisoned on Ellis Island in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
American Odyssey, compiled from his correspondence and his personal and work journals, chronicles Reich's first years in America. They were years of prodigious accomplishment in which he developed the orgone energy accumulator - the so-called orgone box - published his first books in English, made breakthroughs in his persistent investigation of orgone energy in social pathology, physics, astronomy, and cancer, and interested none other than Albert Einstein in testing his theories. America brought a new marriage, a son, a new group of students, and a new laboratory. But these were years of fierce struggle as well: the denial of a complimentary American medical license, the refusal of a patent on the orgone accumulator, and finally a slanderous article that would incite the Food and Drug Administration to the dogged attack on Reich that would continue until his death in another prison cell ten years later.
American Odyssey describes more than a period in the life of an embattled scientist. It illuminates the social and intellectual life of a country in a tumultuous time in history.

Biograf�a del autor

Wilhelm Reich's many works include Character Analysis, The Function of the Orgasm, The Cancer Biopathy, and two collections of earlier autobiographical writings, Passion of Youth and Beyond Psychology.

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