My first memory : icons, thinkers and heroes on their earliest recollections
2019
Books, Manuscripts
What is your first memory? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative realisation, epiphany or experience that changed the course of your life: your very own 'sense of a beginning'. In the book, Ben Holden explores these touchstones via the watershed experiences of some of the greatest figures of our age. Along the way, he explores how memory and childhood merge to form identity. How, in the process, we not only create individual origin-stories but also fashion human history. The first memories of iconic figures - from Machiavelli to Freud, Einstein to Hawking, Churchill to Luther King, Pankhurst to Angelou, Pavarotti to Springsteen, and Pelé to Bolt - combine with exclusive, personal pieces by some of today's greatest writers, scientists and thinkers.
Main title:
My first memory : icons, thinkers and heroes on their earliest recollections / edited by Ben Holden.
Author:
Holden, Ben, editor
Imprint:
London : Scribner, 2019.
Collation:
xii, 419 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471167461 (hbk)
Dewey class:
808.883
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2812061