Michael Walzer Eds (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good+ softcover. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; address label on rear cover for 'Christopher Lasch' (noted author and social historian - Univ Iowa, Northwestern Univ & Univ Rochester); slight foxing on text block top edge; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 140 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good+ softcover. Clean covers and spine; slight fading on front cover near spine; slight foxing on text block edges; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 157 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good+ softcover. Clean covers and spine; very slight foxing on front cover and on text block edges; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 157 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. '25th Anniversary Issue'. Clean covers and spine; slight age darkening on spine; slightly bumped at lower fore corner; 1/8 inch scrape on front cover; slight rubbing wear at spine tail; tightly bound; clean interior; slight dog-ear at lower fore corner of few interior leaves. Articles on: 'Against the New Conservatism'; Milton Friedman; Congress; White flight; 'Ghosts of Vietnam'; 'The Philanthropic Ogre'; global egalitarianism; Sweden; McCarthyism; more. Contributors include: Peter Connolly, Robert Lekachman, Ernest Erber, Rick Tilman, Theodore Draper, Octavio Paz, Charles Beitz, Ulf Himmelstrand, Dennis Wrong, others. 8vo, 128 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. '25th Anniversary Issue'. Clean covers and spine; slight age darkening on spine and very slightly along cover edges; bumped at lower fore corner; tightly bound; clean interior; slight dog-ear at lower fore corner of many interior leaves. Articles on: 'Against the New Conservatism'; Milton Friedman; Congress; White flight; 'Ghosts of Vietnam'; 'The Philanthropic Ogre'; global egalitarianism; Sweden; McCarthyism; more. Contributors include: Peter Connolly, Robert Lekachman, Ernest Erber, Rick Tilman, Theodore Draper, Octavio Paz, Charles Beitz, Ulf Himmelstrand, Dennis Wrong, others. 8vo, 128 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; very slightly faded on spine - titles clear; tightly bound; 4 interior pages with limited pencil and pen underlining, otherwise bright, clean interior. Articles on: 'UAW - A Great Union Confronts the battles of the 80s'; Troubles of the Welfare State'; Cambodia; 'Pastoral Retreat of the New Left'; Spanish Socialism; 'Marx and the Jews'; more. Contributors include: William Kornblum, Robert Lekachman, Irving Howe, Micahel Walzer, David Bazelon, Patricia Cayo Sexton, Benjamin Martin, henry Pachter, others. 8vo, 127 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. One cover title circled in pen, otherwsie bright, clean covers and spine; slightly faded on spine - titles clear; tightly bound; bright, clean interior but for paperclip rust stain affecting 2 pages. Articles on: 'Nukes, Oil, Death, and Politics'; 'From the Walls of Peking'; The Cutlutral Criticism of Christopher Lasch; the West Bank; French Communists; 'What is Political Economy' (an exchange); more. Contributors include: Michael Harrington, David Bromwich, David Orr, Peter Connolly, Dennis Wrong, George Konrad, Leonard Fein, Cornelius Castroiadis, Philip Green, Robert Dahl, others. 8vo, 110 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. Clean covers and spine;lightly scuffed; bumped at top fore corner; tightly bound; 2 interior pages acid stained from once laid-in newsprint; otherwise bright, clean interior. Articles on: 'Beyond the Welfare State'; coal mines and unions; intellectuals; counter-revolution in China; more. Contributors include: Robert A. Dahl, Robetr L. Heilbroner, David Bensman, Lewis Coser, Joseph Clark, others. 8vo, 108 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good softcover. Lightly scuffed/soiled covers; small area of paper lift at front cover near top fore corner - all text clear; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: Solzhenitsyn; Black radicals in Chicago; Yugoslav war memories; Stalinism and Bolshevism; Jimmy Carter; colleges; steelworkers; Ms magazine; Swedish elections; more. Contibutors include: Roy Medvedev, Milovan Djilas, Richard Wright, Eva Hoffman, Ellen Kelman, Robert Lekachman, William Kornblum, Patricia Cayo Sexton, others. 8vo, 110 pp.…

Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on lower edges of text. Front corners of cover dented. Otherwise VG 578 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. 1/4 inch, light stain on front cover at fore edge, otherwise bright, clean covers and spine; very slightly faded on spine - titles clear; address label on rear cover; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: 'Mitterand's First Two Years'; Brezhnev; 'Coping with Recession'; 'Industrializing our Universities'; Jerusalem; feminism; 'A Talk with Walter Reuther'; Reagan and Central America; more. Contributors include: Lewis Coser, Roy Medvedev, Gar Alperovitz, Robert Heilbroner, John C. Cort, Irwin Stark, Barbara Taylor, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Juan Corradi, others. 8vo, 142 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; slightly faded on spine - titles clear; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: 'Nukes, Oil, Death, and Politics'; 'From the Walls of Peking'; The Cutlutral Criticism of Christopher Lasch; the West Bank; French Communists; 'What is Political Economy' (an exchange); more. Contributors include: Michael Harrington, David Bromwich, David Orr, Peter Connolly, Dennis Wrong, George Konrad, Leonard Fein, Cornelius Castroiadis, Philip Green, Robert Dahl, others. 8vo, 110 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: 'Social Retreat - New Face of America?'; 'Reform Among the Teamsters'; 'Jonestown as a Perverse Utopia'; Daniel Moynihan; Africa - war and revolution; 'Freud versus Feminism'; 'Black Rights, Judicial Wrongs'; New Conservatives; more. Contributors include: Michael Harrington, H.W. Benson, Rose Coser, Lewis Coser, Stanley Hoffman, Serge Thion, Amy Gutmann, David Spitz, Samuel Hux, Peter Steinfels, others. 8vo, 126 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. '25th Anniversary Issue'. '25th Anniversary Issue'. Bright, clean covers and spine; slight age darkening on spine and very slightly along rear cover edge; very slight rubbing wear at spine tail; tightly bound; clean interior. Articles on: 'Against the New Conservatism'; Milton Friedman; Congress; White flight; 'Ghosts of Vietnam'; 'The Philanthropic Ogre'; global egalitarianism; Sweden; McCarthyism; more. Contributors include: Peter Connolly, Robert Lekachman, Ernest Erber, Rick Tilman, Theodore Draper, Octavio Paz, Charles Beitz, Ulf Himmelstrand, Dennis Wrong, others. 8vo, 128 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; 1/4 inch faint stain on front cover near spine joint; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: corporate pay; terrorism in Italy; crisis in the steel industry; Carter economics; religion; pornography; more. Contributors include: Irving Howe, Paul Blumberg, Alberto Ronchey, William Kornblum, Robert Lekachman, Erazim Kohak, Dalio Kis, Murray Hausknecht, Cynthia Fuchs, others. 8vo, 110 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Bright, clean covers; very slight rubbing at front cover fore edge; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: equality; civil rights; wage-price controls; Samizdat poems; student revolts; Middle East; Zionism; Lukacs; women's movement; more. Contributors include: H. Brand, Octavio Paz, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Amos Oz, Irving Howe, Michael Harrington, Donald Zagoria, Bernard Avishai, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Henry Pachter, others. 8vo, 110 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good+ softcover. Bright, clean covers; slightly age darkened on spine and along cover edges - titles clear; very slight rubbing at front cover fore edge; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: inflation; welfare state; poverty; socialism; capitalism; Georges Sorel; French left; more. Contributors include: H. Brand, Victor Erlich, Michael Harrington, Czeslaw Milosz, Jean Bloch-Michel, Robert Lekachman, Alan Fox, Herman P. Miller, others. 8vo, 96 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Clean covers and spine; faintly creased on back cover; tightly bound; 2 names underlined in table of contents, otherwise bright, clean interior. Lead articles are: Vodka, Commodity Number One in the Soviet Union, and Israel, After the Begin Victory. Other articles on hospitals and welfare fraud, third world problems, Black Panthers in the Sixties, union democracy, more. Writers include: Michael harrington, A. Krasikov, Menaham Brinker, Irving Howe, H.W. Benson, others. 8vo, 126 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 344 pp., x. NAP with '0986' at bottom right front panel. Contents in four PARTS and 14 chapters. I. INTRODUCTION: 1. Editors, "Overview"; 2. Thomas K. McCraw, "The Historical Background"; II. THE ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITY: 3. Richard Zeckhauser, "The Muddled Responsibilities of Public and Private America"; 4. Michael Walzer, "Toward a Theory of Social Assignments"; III. THE MIND AND THE SPIRIT: 5. Michael O'Hare, "Environmental Management"; 6. Winthrop Knowlton, "Members of the Audience: Public and Private Responsibilities to the Arts"; 7. Thomas C. Schelling, "Whose Business is Good Behavior?"; 8. Glenn C. Loury, "Public and Private Responsibilities in the Struggle against Poverty"; 9. Diane Ravitch, "American Education: Public and Private Responsibilities"; 10. Gerald M. Edelman, "Profits and Prophecy: A Partial View of American Science near the Millennium"; IV. THE CORPORATION AND THE ECONOMY: 11. Robert C. Clark, "Tender Offers and Corporate Governance"; 12. Alvin C. Warren, "Taxation of Corporations"; 13. Paul A. Samuelson, "Has Economic Science Improved the System?"; 14. Lawrence H. Summers, "Government Policy and Economic Performance"; Index, pp. 323-335; About the Contributors, 337-341; About the Editors, pp. 343-344. Red cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Cream, ribbed dustwrapper not price-clipped ($24.95) with title lettering in large red letters above subtitle in smaller black letters on top half front cover; editor names in smaller black letters across bottom front cover, with Harvard University 350th/ John F. Kennedy School of Government 50th Anniversary celebratory logo at center front cover. Slight sunning to spine (all lettering still sharp and distinct, eminently readable); vertical 1/2" closed tear at 1/4" to left of bottom right corner, else Fine: Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives peccadilloes. Book itself: Tight spine (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. UNREAD. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; tightly bound; 1 interior page has small paperclip rust stain and another page has small marginal note in red marker, otherwise bright, crisp, clean interior. Articles on: 'What Socialists Would Do in America'; Vietnam and Cambodia; limits of growth; family life; 'Proposition 13: Screwing the Poor'; more. Contributors include: Michael Harrington, Kenneth J. Arrow, Noam Chomsky, Hans J. Morgenthau, Luther Carpenter, Sheila M. Rothman, Harold Myerson, others. Interior margin note is from Ernie Erber who had an article in the following issue of Dissent (Winter 1979). Laid in are several pages and scraps of notes from Erber outlining a 'Letter to Harrington' in relation to Harrington's article in this issue 'What Socialist Would Do in America'. Erber's bio in next issue notes he was 'an urban and regional planner, [and] director of Research and Program Planning for the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing in Washington, DC'. In the past he had been a national leader of the Young People's Socialist League in the early 1930s and later editor of Socialist Appeal, which was the organ of the Trotskyist left faction within the Socialist Party of America during 1936-1937. 8vo, 118 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Not Indicated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Not Indicated. Some writting & rubber stamp on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk large 8vo 578pp faint remains of erased pencillings markings to margins also previous owner's index annotation on rep and rear pastedown offered as a superior working copy often hard to find.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover. Signatures of 2 editors. '25th Anniversary Issue'. Bright, clean covers and spine; slight age darkening on spine and very slightly along rear cover spine edge; tightly bound; clean interior. Articles on: 'Against the New Conservatism'; Milton Friedman; Congress; White flight; 'Ghosts of Vietnam'; 'The Philanthropic Ogre'; global egalitarianism; Sweden; McCarthyism; more. Contributors include: Peter Connolly, Robert Lekachman, Ernest Erber, Rick Tilman, Theodore Draper, Octavio Paz, Charles Beitz, Ulf Himmelstrand, Dennis Wrong, others. Laid in are: 1) typed, signed letter dated Oct 4 1978 to author Ernest Erber regarding his article ('White Flight and Political Retreat') in this issue from editor Irving Howe, signed 'Irving'; 2) typed, signed note dated Nov 28 1978 to author Erber from editor Edith Tarcov with full signature. Erber's bio in this issue notes he was 'an urban and regional planner, [and] director of Research and Program Planning for the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing in Washington, DC'. In the past he had been a national leader of the Young People's Socialist League in the early 1930s and later editor of Socialist Appeal, which was the organ of the Trotskyist left faction within the Socialist Party of America during 1936-1937. He was politically associated with editor Howe at various times. 8vo, 128 pp. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: ex library-very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxviii, 622 p. 24 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex lib with labels on lower spine and rear endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges and first pages. Jacket taped to book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. xi, 307p.