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Rothschild’s faulty towers: grovel at the chamber pot

Of the first thirty-seven years of Edmond de Rothschild’s life little is known. According to his biographer, David Druck, he lived a sheltered, guarded, ivory tower existence. Life in palaces he certainly led. There was his family’s elegant town house … Continue reading

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what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?

Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading

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