Making the Most of It

by Bryan Magee

The third instalment of Bryan Magee's memoirs picks up where Growing Up in a War ends, with his going up to Oxford as an undergraduate after the Second World War. Through the love affairs, extraordinary friendships and the heady intellectual atmosphere of Oxford in the 1940s and '50s, the fame of the '60s and the political turmoil of Britain in the '80s, Making the Most of It is a fascinating, deeply personal journey through the 20th century.

The first volume of his memoirs, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood, won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography

391 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2018

About the author

Bryan Edgar Magee was a noted British broadcasting personality, politician, poet, and author, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.

He attended Keble College, Oxford where he studied History as an undergraduate and then Philosophy, Politics and Economics in one year. He also spent a year studying philosophy at Yale University on a post-graduate fellowship.

Magee's most important influence on society remains his efforts to make philosophy accessible to the layman. Transcripts of his television series "Men of Ideas" are available in published form in the book Talking Philosophy. This book provides a readable and wide-ranging introduction to modern Anglo-American philosophy.