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Article: Capaldi, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography.(Book review)
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CAPALDI, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. xx, 436 pp. $40.00.
Nicholas Capaldi's recent biography of John Stuart Mill was obviously a labor of love. The book is a tribute to a thinker and a person for whom Capaldi has unbounded admiration, and it is refreshing to feel his deep affection for his subject. The last major biography of Mill was M. St. John Packe's The Life of John Stuart Mill (1954), and a new biography has been long overdue. It is undoubtedly difficult to condense a life as rich as Mill's into one volume, and Capaldi necessarily had to be selective in his treatment. He does provide a general outline of Mill's ...