Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi
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A path-breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor."A fascinating, ambitious, valuable map of modern creativity and the modern period."—Catharine R. Stimpson, "New York Times Book Review" "In "Creating Minds, " Gardner joins a small cadre of scholars offering evidence that one "can" characterize genius. And in one of those rare instances of theories fitting real people, the descriptions match what today's most creative thinkers say about themselves." "—Newsweek"
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