jennings bryan, clarence darrow, thomas, lionel trilling, newton, to the butler, cornell west and harold bloom. while some were enlivened by his writings and others were mortified by his writings, none were indifferent to the implication of the philosophy for the promise of american life and yet today however i wanted to get a different kind of reader. i want to look at a very different kind of source and i'm going to look at the fan letters that were written by the american readers and sent to the archive in germany. i do so not only because they give us access to the intellectual world of, quote on "average americans often overlooked by intellectual historians, but because the signal how inline the philosophy and his image of the suffering larboard mad genius became so instrumental in american intellectual life. we see how americans press neitzsche to service using him to criticize the shortcomings of american democracy, the morrill committee of the priest and the promises of enchantment by the secular pop culture. the value of the letters as historical documents, as historical sources it se