Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the liter
ary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, hum
orous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, t
he rise of Nazism and Prohibition, to more perennial themes such as love, parent
hood, education and friendship. Available for the first time in the Routledge Cl
assics series in a single volume, this pithy, provocative and often-personal col
lection of essays brings together the very best of Russell's many contributions
to the New York American, and proves just as engaging for today's readers as the
y were in the 1930s.
