Values for survival : essays, addresses, and letters on politics and education / Lewis Mumford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Education.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Penn Provenance:

Halsey, Courtland Van R. (donor) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 314 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]

Contents:

Book one: essays on politics. Call to arms ; The corruption of liberalism ; The reasons for fighting ; The aftermath of utopianism ; Program for survival

Book two: addresses on education. The social responsibilities of teachers ; Education for war and peace ; The unified approach to knowledge and life ; The making of men

Book three: letters to Germans. To Frau Maria Z. in Lübeck ; To Dr. Hermann K., an architect in Hamburg ; To Alfons F., a writer in Austria ; To J.E.F., a manufacturer ; To E.A.T., a professor in Munich

Envoy.

Notes:

With half-title.

"First edition."

"This book consists of variations on a single theme: What must modern man do to be saved?"

Binding: beige cloth boards lettered in silver on brown panel on spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks.

RBC copy has ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in pencil in text.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Courtland Van R. Halsey.

RBC copy inscribed to "Van. R Halsey" by the author in Amenia, N.Y., on 26 October 1954, on front free endpaper.

RBC copy has laid in p. 485-486 of The spectator (22 October 1954) with essay "True conservatism" by Henry Fairlie.

RBC copy: dust jacket (damaged) retained.

OCLC:

193004