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Good. Size: 8x5x1; Good condition, light wear between inside cover and first page. No observable damage to pages or covers. Paperback book, no page markings. EG.
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Good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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Good. Good condition. Volume 1. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine. Signed by Gunnar Myrdal on front free endpaper, inscribed to "a much esteemed colleague" French philosopher Rene Maheu, UNESCO Chief, Division of Free Flow of Information, later Director of the organization. lix, [1], 1483 pp. Ninth edition, the single volume edition first published in 1944. A Near Fine copy lacking the dust jacket, a little shelf worn. Rare signed. This work, though somewhat obscure today, was the culminating achievement of Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's life. It was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study American history and society in hopes of providing answers to what was then commonly called "the negro problem, " a stark divide in an openly segregated sociological, political, and economic system. The book was widely read and cited, including in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954 that desegregated public schools.
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First edition, early printing in one volume of the economist's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed and dated by Gunnar Myrdal in 1965. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear and chips to the extremities. An American Dilemma is a means to learn much about the present from reading about the past. This landmark study of America's relationship with its African member show how far America has come as a country of freedom, and it is"[o]ne of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" (The American Political Science Review). Myrdal shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, for their "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."
