{"product_id":"9781466846838","title":"American Odyssey: Letters \u0026 Journals, 1940-1947","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night.\" With these words, Wilhelm Reich described his experience as an \"enemy alien\" imprisoned on Ellis Island in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, compiled from his correspondence and journals, chronicles Reich's first years in America. They were years of prodigious accomplishment in which he developed the orgone energy accumulator-the so-called orgone box; published his first books in English; made breakthroughs in his investigation of orgone energy in social pathology, physics, astronomy, and cancer; and interested none other than Albert Einstein in testing his theories. America brought a new marriage, a new son, a new group of students, and a new laboratory. But these were years of fierce struggle as well: the denial of an American medical license, the refusal of a patent on the orgone accumulator, and, finally, a slanderous article that would incite the Food and Drug Administration to the dogged attack on Reich that would continue until his death in another prison cell ten years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e reveals more than a period in the life of an embattled scientist. It discloses the social and intellectual life of a country in a tumultuous time in history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174681788656,"sku":"9781466846838","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466846838_p0.jpg?v=1763686918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466846838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}