Books by John Maze

Very little has been written about Harold Ickes, one of the most important, complex, and colorful figures of the New Deal. White and Maze uncover the psychological imperatives and conscious ideals of Ickes' unknown private life that illuminate his public career.

Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) remains one of the most puzzling figures of twentieth-century American politics. In this interpretive biography, Graham White and John Maze explore Wallace's political career, his enigmatic personality, and the origins and development of his social, political, and religious thought, including his mystical beliefs.

Presenting a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels, this work explains how Woolf's feminism and pacifism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her childhood and adult relationships with her family and men.