Reviews for Vigilance

The average rating for Vigilance based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-14 00:00:00 Cassandra Brown I read this originally about 10 years ago for a class in grad school and I re-read it to brush up before teaching the same class, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Demorest lays out her premises in the first chapter: the one that is the subtitle of the book (the theoreticians drew broad conclusions about how Humanity works based on their own personal lives and the times they lived in), and that clues to the first thesis can be detected in their journals and other primary sources through carefully tracking what they focused on or omitted. This could easily have been twice as long and would have been something to dredge through, but the writing is tight, interesting, and at times humorous. The author tells the stories insightfully, both biographies and the points she is making, with well-chosen quotes and vignettes that keep the book grounded in primary sources without feeling like you're re-reading someone's entire collected works. I think this would be interesting and accessible to a person who is entirely unfamiliar with these psychologists, while having depth that gave me (a Ph.D. who is teaching a class on the history of psychology) new insights.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-12 00:00:00 Mike Thompson I like writer's writing style