...James L. Godfrey Harold Laski . By Martin Kingsley . New York : The Viking Press , 1953 . Pp. x , 278 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 134 The South Atlantic Quarterly lenge? Can contemporary democratic socialism, clearly the product of the revisionism...

... held throughout the world, that the School is an international focal point of left-wing intellectualism and a vital force in the political life of Great Britain. For over twenty years, from his appointment in the nineteentwenties until his death in 1950, a single man Professor Harold Laski personified...

.... Mr, Attlee accepted, but Professor Harold J. 300 The South Atlantic Quarterly Laski, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labor Party, insisted that Mr. Attlee could go only as an observer, without authority to commit his party. The Conservatives thereupon imme­ diately claimed...

.... THE INHERITANCE OF THIS GENERATION Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. By Harold J. Laski. New York: The Viking Press, 1943. Pp. ix, 419. $3.50. History does not permit men the luxury of escaping their inheri­ tance, Mr. Laski writes in his most important and penetrating book since The Rise of Liberalism...

..., no closer kin. But these are minor matters, not meant to detract from the endorsement that this book so richly deserves. Joel colton Harold Laski. By Kingsley Martin. New York: The Viking Press, 1953. Pp. x, 278. $4.00. Perhaps no academic figure of the last half century succeeded in making himself so well...

... pages of history with much good reading. Paul H. Clyde. BRITISH DEMOCRACY Parliamentary Government in England. By Harold J. Laski. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Pp. 383. $3.50. Here is a singularly attractive and refreshing book on the workings of democratic institutions in England. Written with Mr...

... the new form to interpret a new industiial civilization. Contemporary literary development seems to be marked by the same demand on the part of the common people as was present in the sixteenth century. Laski s Authority in the Modern State preaches realistic politics as did Machiavelli s Prince...

... of a deep respect for per­ sonality, to clutter up their minds and ours with ideological rubble. Now is hardly the time to start reading The Federalist or John Donne. All that is living and viable in the former is to be found in Harold Laski, Louis Fischer, or Max Lerner. And surely, if one can t throttle...

... ofGraft in America, Nathan Miller s The Founding Finaglers, and Victor Lasky s partisan It Didn t Begin with Watergate. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Milton M. Klein The Tennessee. The Old River: Frontier to Secession. By Donald Davidson. Introduction by Thomas Daniel Young. Tennesseana Editions...

... Miller s The Founding Finaglers, and Victor Lasky s partisan It Didn t Begin with Watergate. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Milton M. Klein The Tennessee. The Old River: Frontier to Secession. By Donald Davidson. Introduction by Thomas Daniel Young. Tennesseana Editions; Facsimile of Vol. I...

... with an evaluation of America as a world power. The quantity of material ex­ amined and recounted is incredible a library of contemporary Americana. Moreover, the author is by the nature of his task called on to render his verdict on all of these findings from Kinsey s view of sex behavior to Harold Laski s view...

... of these findings from Kinsey s view of sex behavior to Harold Laski s view of The American Democracy (a book which this one resembles in scope but not in partisanship). Possibly this is the one thing the reader misses in the present account a sustained point of view. Mr. Book Reviews 321 Lerner is not critical...

... believed, which contributed to the ineffectiveness of liberalism s facing the present crisis6 and Harold J. Laski, liberal by temperament, realizes the problem of com­ bining centralized planning with democracy and freedom of thought, but with almost Nineteenth Century optimism he as­ sumes...

... talism. But in order to convey the message Mr. Rosenberg almost loses Carlyle in a jungle of elaborate context in which we find refer­ ences to everybody from Jesus Christ, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Burke, James Joyce, Karl Mannheim, Benedetto Croce, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Harold J. Laski...

..., Laski was not dull. Martin has succeeded in preserving much of the verve and warmth of the man. Those who knew him or knew of him will find this an interesting and sympathetic view of a figure that will scarcely grow less controversial in the next few decades. james l. Godfrey New Guinea...

..., which were so frequent on such occasions, were anathema to him. Then, too, fundamentally he was a middle-ofthe-roader, and, as Harold J. Laski pointed out, Like all men who choose the middle of the road, there is a certain hesitation in his step. This was a quality that vexed some of the cocksure...

... the political, cultural, and material strictures rehearsed under slavery and practiced by whiteness foreclose any unfettered sequential passage into liberal freedom (Laski 2017: 4). As experienced by Jacobs, Northup, and Frado, the protagonist of Our Nig, these (non)freedoms are variably premature, delayed...

... of Eliza­ beth a Pole, Count Laski, who professed great interest in the occult. On July 31, 1583, he asked to dine with Dee, and poor Dee relates in his diary that he was forced to tell Leicester that he would have to sell some of his plate for money. Leicester told Elizabeth, who sent an immediate present...

... of political science at Ball State University, Indiana, Mr. Menez was Smith-Mundt Lecturer to the National Universities of Peru in 1960-61, and he lectured in other countries. He has published widely among the journals. 1 Bendiner, White House Fever (New York, 1960), pp. vii-viii. 2 Harold J. Laski...

... on specific big Jews: Blum, Laski, Sassoon, Baruch, Frankfurter, the Rothschilds, Freud, Lehman, and Morgenthau (the last two presented as the real power in America) and such puppets of the Jews as Roosevelt, Churchill, and de Gaulle. Pound is still aware that there are Gentiles as guilty as Jews Why Pick...