With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls.

How you attend to something – or don’t attend to it – matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see.

This is how philosophy differs from religious, sectarian and other dogmas and closed systems of thinking.

This is how philosophy differs from religious, sectarian and other dogmas and closed systems of thinking.