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Hardcover. Condition: Good. [Personal copy of Alfred Mitchell Bingham] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Edge wear, rubbed. Moderate foxing. Contemporary signature of Bingham on front end page. Alfred Mitchell Bingham was a well-born, well-heeled radical who made a broken field run through 20th century intellectual history. In 1932, Bingham and Selden Rodman launched Common Sense, a monthly journal of progressive opinion and comment. Bingham and Rodman believed that they were following in the footsteps of Thomas Paine and took the title of his famous pamphlet for the name of their magazine. In 1934 Bingham was arrested and jailed in Jersey City for picketing during a civil rights demonstration. He was later released on appeal. Between 1932 and 1936 Bingham devoted considerable time and energy to third party movements. In 1933 he became executive secretary of the Farmer Labor Political Federation, established by the League for Independent Political Action's "United Conference for Progressive Political Action". Bingham was also executive secretary for the American Commonwealth Political Federation, which succeeded the Farmer Labor Political Federation in 1935. These organizations, associated with the LaFollette Progressives in Wisconsin and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, had intended to run candidates in the 1936 elections, but many sections of the movement, fearing a Republican victory, withdrew their opposition to Roosevelt. After 1936, Bingham himself supported the New Deal. In fact he eventually became skeptical of the possibility of organizing a national liberal movement, and in 1941 he ran and was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut State Senate, where he became chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee (1941-1942). In 1944 Bingham entered the army as a Military Government Officer and served as a labor specialist, mainly in Germany. After the war Common Sense ceased publication and Bingham began to practice law. He also served as Workmen's Compensation Commissioner from 1949 to 1951 during the administration of Chester Bowles, then Governor of Connecticut. In addition Bingham served on many boards and committees, including the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1940-1947.