Political and Economic Democracy

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Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine that's moderately faded, both lettering and color. Book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings on the oustide, Inside has prior owners signature on inside front cover and around 20 pages have underlinings and a few margin notes. Prior owner was a professor of politics and public policy at Harvard and then Bennington. Many of the contributors were exiles from their countries of origin, including the two editors: Max Ascoli was an Italian Jew. His opposition to the Italian fascist regime led him into exile. In 1931, Ascoli received a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship and moved to the United States. In 1939, he became an American citizen. He was active in the Mazzini Society, an anti-fascist organization founded in 1939 by Italian intellectuals who had fled fascist Italy. For many years, Ascoli taught at the New School for Social Research, becoming dean of the Graduate School. Fritz Lehmann was a German Jew. Many of the other contributors were "refugees" from Germany and other European countries. The contributors: Gerhard Colm, Alfred Kahler, Edward Heimann, Frieda Wunderlich, Rudolf Littauer, Hans Staudinger, Karl Brandt, Horace M. Kallen, Fritz Lehmann, Arthur Feiler, Hans Simons, Max Ascoli, Arnold Brecht, Albert Salomon, Hans Speier, Max Wertheimer, Emil Lederer, Carl Mayer, and Alvin Johnson. With a foreword by Alvin Johnson. A Very Scarce Book. 8vo., 336pp. 1st/1st. N° de ref. del artículo blb02670

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