The James boys

[Howard Roseman]

Here's a guy who laments that Warren sang about Frank and Jesse instead of
Henry and William. I admit the latter bros were a tad more intellectual, but
come on, they never killed anyone, and Henry's novels will put you to sleep
faster than Jesse ever could.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/digest/books/11_december_2006.php

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D.
Richardson (Houghton Mifflin, 640 pages)
I have always wished that Warren Zevon had written about the more worthy
James Brothers, Henry and William, instead of the bloodthirsty criminal
brothers who have been mythologized as heroes. Anyway, while I am mostly in
favor of the current wave of short biographical essays, such is William
James's crucial place in American intellectual development (mentor to W.E.B.
Dubois and Gertrude Stein, among others), that new books on him must be
noted. Robert D. Richardson, who wrote a well-regarded biography of Thoreau,
spent 10 years digging through unpublished materials and sources to fashion
another so-called "definitive" biography of the great American
philosopher/psychologist and author of the seminal The Varieties of
Religious Experience. So if you weren't sated by Louis Menand's great work
The Metaphysical Club, then by all means help yourself to this hefty portion
of Jamesiana.