World Politics and Personal Insecurity

Harold D. Lasswell

Published by Whittlesey House, New York and London, 1935

Stated First Edition. You are not going to find too many books of this age in this kind of condition. As you can see in the photos, the covers are in very nice condition. The wear is quite minor. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The corners are free of rubbing. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The interior the book is in excellent condition. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I'm not finding any soiling. I'm not seeing any significant creasing. Some pages at the middle of the book have a teeny tiny semi-crease just above their bottom tips. There are no placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. 'Harold Dwight Lasswell was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He studied at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris, and Berlin in the 1920s. He served as President of the American Political Science Association, of the American Society of International Law and of the World Academy of Art and Science. He has been described as a 'one-man university' whose 'competence in, and contributions to, anthropology, communications, economics, law, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and sociology are enough to make him a political scientist in the model of classical Greece.' According to a biographical memorial written by Gabriel Almond at the time of Lasswell's death and published by the National Academies of Sciences in 1987, Lasswell 'ranked among the half- dozen creative innovators in the social sciences in the twentieth century.' At the time, Almond asserted that 'few would question that he was the most original and productive political scientist of his time.' Areas of research in which Lasswell worked included the importance of personality, social structure, and culture in the explanation of political phenomena. Lasswell was associated with the disciplines of communication, political science, psychology, and sociology--however he did not adhere to the distinction between these disciplines, rather erased the lines drawn to divide them.'. Seller Inventory # 005043

Bibliographic Details

Title: World Politics and Personal Insecurity
Publisher: Whittlesey House, New York and London
Publication Date: 1935
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition