House of Wits

An American odyssey that reveals the fascinating complexities of one of history’s most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families. “In this amazing portrait of a family that may have been the Royal Tenenbaums of the nineteenth century, Paul Fisher has written a biography which brings the Jameses to lie on the page as if they were our own fascinating, brilliant friends and neighbors.” —Susan Cheever, author of American Bloomsbury The James family, one of America’s most memorable dynasties, gave th