In My Blood Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family

Name: In My Blood Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family
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ISBN: 9780060521677

ISBN-10: 0060521678

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Authors: John Sedgwick

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While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history of his own storied family-one of America's oldest and most notable. Following a bloodline that travels from Theodore Sedgwick, compatriot of George Washington and John Adams, to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's tragic muse, John Sedgwick's very personal journey of self-discovery became something far greater: a spellbinding study of the evolution of an extraordinary American family.

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



The Genealogy of the Sedgwick Family



Preliminaries



My Fall



Our Graveyard



The Legacy



A Man of Property



Mr. Sedgwick Builds His Dream House



A Friend of Order



Among the River Gods



The War Within the War



Williams Family Secrets



The Household Did Not Run of Itself



All Men Are Born Free and Equal



The Proper Object of Gibbets & Racks



Bottled Lightning



The State of Widowhood



A Disorder of the Blood



Among the Maniacs



The Reign of Terror



Colonel Lovejoy's Methods



It Can Not Be Told



In Mamma's Room



The Legacy Defined



The Third Mrs. Sedgwick



The Will



To Worship the Dead



Catharine in Silhouette



I Have Located My Heaven



The Great Central Fire



In the Country Burial Place, Would I Lie



The Price of Legacy



The Great Wheel Turns



Babbo & Ellery



Marrying Up



Good Night, Sweet Prince



The Family Patriarch



Evasion and Escape



Sally & Shan



The Anti-Helen



My Mother's Diary



A Little Scratch on the Chromosomes



Little Duke



Edie, Superstar



"One Loves to Remember Beauty"



In Loco Parentis



"We're Ruined"



"Wssht"



What Remains



Our Interior Weather



A Guide to Life


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Index