Impact; essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization / by Ezra Pound. Edited with an introduction by Noel Stock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Stock, Noel.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Henry Regnery Company, 1960.

Contents:

I. Essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization; National culture: a manifesto; Destruction by taxation; An introduction to the economic nature of the United States; Bureaucracy the flail of Jehovah; A visiting card; Possibilities of civilization: what the small town can do; Murder by capital; Integrity of the word; The enemy is ignorance; Mang Tze: the ethics of Mencius; An impact; In the wounds: memoriam A.R. Orage; The Jefferson-Adams letters as a shrine and a monument; America and the Second World War; Immediate need of Confucius

II. Gists. Shorter pieces and extracts from uncollected essays

III. Letters to America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

419877