Men First. A Weekly Editorial Letter on the Fight for a New Democracy [13 issues + 1 supplement]

13 issues (1-3 leaves each, stapled). 14x8.5 inches. Some browning, spotting, and small tears to extremities. Old fold lines. The inaugural issue posits Social Credit as a "third way" solution superior to both socialism and Fascism, and approvingly cites Ignazio Silone and Peter F. Drucker. An announcement stapled to issue 1 declares the newsletter will begin with a circulation of only 200 as it seeks to foster discussion only among the "American intelligentsia." Early issues appear on paper with "American Social Credit Movement" at the head, which is changed in later issues. Gorham Munson is the chief author and responds to correspondence from readers. The supplement appeared sometime in January 1941 and reproduces the text of the Voorhis plan for war financing which includes a scheme for "debt-free credit issuance." Includes issue numbers 1, 2, 5, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 27, 35, 124, 129. Holdings are scarce, with WorldCat reporting only four locations (3 in New York, one at Yale), though we note one additional holding as part of the Gorham Munson papers at Wesleyan University. …