TY - BOOK AU - Feferman,Anita Burdman TI - Politics, logic, and love: the life of Jean van Heijenoort SN - 1568811489 U1 - 194 PY - 1993/// CY - Wellesley, Mass. PB - A K Peters KW - Trotsky, Leon, KW - Van Heijenoort, Jean, KW - Logicians KW - Bibliography KW - France KW - Biography N1 - Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - Ch. 1: In My Beginning Is My End: Creil: 1912-1918. - Ch. 2: "Those Schools": 1919-1929. - Ch. 3: A Sharp Left Turn N2 - Jean van Heijenoort was a brilliant young Frenchman who became the bodyguard of Leon Trotsky for seven years, the lover of Frida Kahlo, and then a world-renowned symbolic logician. Anita Feferman, who knew him personally, brings this fascinating man back to life with sympathy, intelligence, and verve, and provides an absorbing cross-section of the Trotskyite world that included Andre Breton and Diego Rivera. - Back cover ER -