Alston chase biography meaning

Alston Chase is a former philosophy professor who has degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Princeton Universities....

Alston Chase offers more by way of explanation than reassurance.

Alston Chase's gripping account follows Ted Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard, where he was subject not only to the despairing.

Alston Chase is a former philosophy professor who has degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Princeton Universities.

After a long and mainly golden retirement, Dr. Chase died on March 10, just a few months short of seeing this book in print.

Alston Chase's Harvard and the Unabomber is essentially a page elaboration of his Atlantic.

Letters

I Am the Grass
Unabomber

Alston Chase ("Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber," June Atlantic) relies on inaccurate information, quotation out of context, and sheer speculation to suggest not only that Henry Murray's experiments had a sinister purpose but also that they were a "turning point" in the making of the Unabomber.

Although he admits that there is no evidence that Murray used LSD in his research, Chase discusses Murray's interest in Timothy Leary's psilocybin research as if to establish guilt by association. In this connection he quotes Martin Lee and Bruce Schlain, the authors of Acid Dreams, who mistakenly refer to Murray as "chairman of the Department of Social Relations" at Harvard (although he had a role in its formation, Murray never served as chair of the department).

Moreover, although Chase refers to Forrest Robinson's biography of Murray, he overlooks Robinson's discussions of Murray's interest in "dyadic" interactions.

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