{"product_id":"9781787387928","title":"Serious Minds","description":"Author: Richard McLauchlan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781787387928\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hurst Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 424\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful ... intellects' British statesmanship had ever seen. His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One. Their sister Elizabeth was among the first women to become a senior public servant. Their mother Mary, friend and advisor to top politicians and churchmen, nurtured these exceptional minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary's grandchildren swapped her traditional roots for radical socialism, but continued the brilliant family legacy. Naomi Mitchison was a doyenne of Scottish literature; one Nobel prizewinner called her brother, the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, 'the cleverest man I ever knew'. Like the Darwins and Keyneses, this clan of thinkers lived in rapidly changing times, and helped to remake the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive family interviews and previously unseen private papers, Serious Minds details scandal, tragedy and achievement within a dynasty that shaped modern Britainfrom the welfare state, education system and military, to our understanding of energy, the human body, and the origins of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852919591070,"sku":"ADS-9781787387928","price":67.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781787387928.jpg?v=1779064722","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781787387928","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}