Posted on 09/20/2014 5:33:16 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
I have found this series to be intriguing, now that I own one. This pamphlet series is 45 publications long, it ran from 1932 to 1934. They are as follows: (author, title)
1: Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself
2: Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression--and After: A Prophecy
3: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931
4: Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature
5: Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis
6: Charles Austin Beard,The Myth of Rugged American Individualism
7: Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy
8: Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem
9: Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry
10: Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution
11: George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages)
12: Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be--Take Your Choice
13: Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society
14: Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done -- Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation
15: Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution
16: Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy
17: Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism
18: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?
19: Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation
20: Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages)
21: Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership
22: John Strachey, Unstable Money
23: Ambrose William Benkert and Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression
24: Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler
25: Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order
26: Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane
27: Osgood Nichols and Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America
28: Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed
29: Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City
30: Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation
31: Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship
32: Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power
33: Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany
34: Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional?
35: Lev Davydovič Trockij (Leon Trotsky), What Hitler Wants
36: Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee
37: Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems
38: Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America
39: Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled
40: Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy
41: Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar
42: Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable?
43: Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers
44: James Rorty, Order on the Air!
45: Stuart Chase, Move the Goods!
Take me off
1: Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself
6: Charles Austin Beard,The Myth of Rugged American Individualism (page 13-22)
7: Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy
9: Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry
11: George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages)
15: Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution
16: Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy
17: Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism
19: Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation
24: Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler
24: Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler (alt)
30: Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation
31: Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship
32: Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power
34: Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional?
36: Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee
37: Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems
38: Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America
41: Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar
43: Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers
45: Stuart Chase, Move the Goods!
The John Day Company was a New York publishing firm that specialized in illustrated fiction and current affairs books and pamphlets from 1926-1968. It was founded by Richard J. Walsh in 1926 and named after John Day, the Elizabethan printer. Walsh was the editor and second husband of Pearl S. Buck. The John Day Company was sold to the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. in 1974.
No relation to Stein & Day, another defunct publisher.
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