Item #29589 John Stuyvesant Ancestor and Other People [LABOR]. Alvin JOHNSON.

John Stuyvesant Ancestor and Other People [LABOR]. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1919.

First Edition. "Stories of many sorts of people, marked by the keenness of their analytic power and by their insight into the secret springs of human action." Stories include The Lynching in Bass County (in which town folk confront a doctor who has been embezzling the town's taxes), Suh-Ho in Praise of Footbinding, A Sympathetic Strike (concerning a Jewish striker), Phyllis the Feminist, Forbidden Fruit, The Molting of Alcibiades, etc. [Smith's American Fiction] Author was an economist and co-founder and first director of the 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. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.

Price: $250.00

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