Hapgood norman preface (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "In 1912, Woodrow Wilson campaigned for President using many progressive economic ideas about banking reform, tariff reduction and the elimination of monopolies and trusts, the consolidation of which became known as the New Freedom. After Wilson's election, Louis Brandeis, who was responsible for many of Wilson's ideas, wrote a series of articles for Harper's Weekly which outlined why the New Freedom was necessary and how best to implement it. In 1914 these articles were collected in book form." - University of Louisville website. "While his articles were running in Harper's Weekly I had ample opportunity to know how widespread was the belief among intelligent men that this brilliant diagnosis of our money trust was the most important contribution to current thought in many years." - Preface. "Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He later became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to 'revive sense of the Jewish spirit.'" - Wikipedia. No indication of any prior printings, aside from the first appearance of these articles in Harper's Weekly in 1913. xvi, 223 pp. Presentation bookplate to the Overland Club of Pasadena inside front board, their inkstamp appearing on the top edge. Marginal lines to one paragraph on page viii otherwise tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original chocolate brown cloth attractively lettered and illustrated in gilt. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. A rare and well-preserved example of the first printing. ; 12mo.…