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...KONRAD LORENZ: A BIOGRAPHY...
Alec Nisbett, a physicist and science writer, plainly had ample access to Konrad Lorenz, the ethologist and author of the widely read books King Solomon's Ring and On Aggression. But Nisbett seems to have been overawed by his subject. As a result, he has failed to write a critical study of Lorenz and his work. Instead, he has produced an informative Festschrift...
...facts are all here. Nisbett's interviews with Lorenz reveal the great man to be the son of a dominant father who wanted him to study medicine rather than zoology. They show how Lorenz managed to mollify the old man by doing both and by sharing a Nobel Prize for Medicine...
Nisbett's book also describes Lorenz's remarkably symbiotic marriage to his wife and collaborator Gretl and relates, in great detail, the studies upon which he based his books and theories. Lorenz, in the course of his work, served as "mother" to a family of goslings, spent apparently interminable hours observing jackdaws, fish and other animals before developing his hypothesis that overcivilized modern man lives in a state of moral decay...
...Lorenz received letters from grateful Americans, some of them German immigrants. His political critics chided Lorenz for using Help America to further his own political ambitions. But it seemed they were mainly annoyed about not getting the idea first. They had to admit that Lorenz's idea struck a soft spot, one as nonpartisan as the weather...