John Day pamphlets

John Day Pamphlet Series | 1932-34

[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!

[ProgressingAmerica]

Look at the names of some of these authors. I found many of these are readable online, I'll reply when I have rounded up all of those links to all those interested.

[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: Stalin is one of the authors, Trotsky, Norman Thomas, H. G. Wells, even Albert Einstein. Some of the lesser known(unfortunately) authors that should be of some attention are Stuart Chase and Rexford Guy Tugwell, both of whom were advisors to FDR. George S. Counts, Charles Beard, and Walter Lippmann. The one that seems to stand out from the pack of radicals is Henry Hazlitt.

[Fiji Hill]

Other lefties on that list include Harold Rugg, the radical educationist who influenced the development of "progressive" education; Marquis Childs, who slimed President Eisenhower in his screed Eisenhower: Captive Hero: A Critical Study of the General and the President (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958); James Rorty, who with Moshe Decter wrote McCarthy and the Communists (Boston: Beacon, 1954), an attack on our favorite Wisconsin solon, and Bert Wolfe, at the time a dissident Communist who would later turn against Communism and pen Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical history (Washington, DC: Dial, 1948), a classic account of the founding of the Soviet union.

[Fiji Hill]

Stuart Chase popularized the expression "New Deal" in his book A New Deal (New York: Macmillan, 1932).

[RichardMoore]

Take me off

[ProgressingAmerica]

Here are all the ones I can find for current reading:

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!

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One thing they may have gotten right:

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.

A new Pearl S. Buck novel - 40 years after death