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The state of the union : essays in social criticism / by Albert Jay Nock ; edited by Charles H. Hamilton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Indianapolis : LibertyPress, [1991]Description: xxx, 340 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0865970920
  • 9780865970922
  • 0865970939 (pbk.)
  • 9780865970939 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN64 .N63 1991
Contents:
A biography of ideas. The purpose of biography -- The value to the clergyman of training in the classics -- Autobiographical sketch -- Anarchists's progress -- The path to the river -- The casualties of war. Peace the aristocrat -- The end and the means -- An exhausted virtue -- Anglo-American relations -- Pointing a moral -- The social critic. A cultural forecast -- Criticism's proper field -- Artemus Ward -- Study in paradoxes -- Isaiah's job. The humane life. What we all stand for -- Prohibition and civilization -- Our pastors and masters -- The decline of conversation -- One's own smoke -- American education -- Snoring as a fine art -- Pantagruelism -- The cult of politics. In the vein of intimacy -- The leadership of ideas -- The state -- Officialism and lawlessness -- The return of the patriots -- "A little conserva-tive" -- The criminality of the state -- Liberalism, properly so called -- Miscellany. Culture and freedom -- Miscellany -- The oxometer -- Sinclair Lewis -- Thoughts from abroad -- Cultivating a single garden. On doing the right thing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A biography of ideas. The purpose of biography -- The value to the clergyman of training in the classics -- Autobiographical sketch -- Anarchists's progress -- The path to the river -- The casualties of war. Peace the aristocrat -- The end and the means -- An exhausted virtue -- Anglo-American relations -- Pointing a moral -- The social critic. A cultural forecast -- Criticism's proper field -- Artemus Ward -- Study in paradoxes -- Isaiah's job. The humane life. What we all stand for -- Prohibition and civilization -- Our pastors and masters -- The decline of conversation -- One's own smoke -- American education -- Snoring as a fine art -- Pantagruelism -- The cult of politics. In the vein of intimacy -- The leadership of ideas -- The state -- Officialism and lawlessness -- The return of the patriots -- "A little conserva-tive" -- The criminality of the state -- Liberalism, properly so called -- Miscellany. Culture and freedom -- Miscellany -- The oxometer -- Sinclair Lewis -- Thoughts from abroad -- Cultivating a single garden. On doing the right thing.