From Flamingo Books, Menifee, CA, U.S.A.
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1946 first edition presentation copy / association copy, W.W. Norton (New York), 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches tall pale blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 253 pp. Slight soiling, edgewear and rubbing to covers. Presentation copy, with a dedication by the author on a blank front free-endpaper, 'To C.W.M. my friend and co-builder of the New School. - A.J.' Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly soiled and moderately rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. 'C.W.M.' refers to Clara Woolie Mayer (1895-1988), an early member of the school's Board of Directors who would eventually become Vice President, and without whom, one article about the school says, 'The New School, as we know it, would not exist.' ~YY~ [1.5P] The pattern and purpose running through this book spring from a single source: the author's unshakable faith in liberal democracy as the most favorable seedbed for the growth of the individual, who is the origin of all true progress. Alvin Saunders Johnson (1874-1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Johnson helped to save numerous central European scholars from persecution by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, then brought them to a specially-created division of the New School which became known as the 'University in Exile.' He was also an editor of the massive Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Seller Inventory # YY-1291-11325
Bibliographic Details
Title: The clock of history,
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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