My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers

"e;WE ARE ALL PROMPTED BY THE SAME MOTIVES, ALL DECEIVED BY THE SAME FALLACIES, ALL ANIMATED BY HOPE, OBSTRUCTED BY DANGER, ENTANGLED BY DESIRE, AND SEDUCED BY PLEASURE."e; This book is a biography of the man who wrote those words about three hundred years ago, the great man of letters of the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson. And it has a special purpose: presenting the story of Sam's life in a ...