Four offprints on "technocracy". Technocracy, First and Second Series; Technocracy, National Industrial Management; Technocracy, Explained by its Originator; Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before.

SMYTH, William Henry.

Published by Berkeley, California: reprinted from The Gazette, 1921-33

About this Item

Four offprints from the Berkeley Daily Gazette and Industrial Management, two of which are presentation copies, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper. The recipients were two towering figures in American history: Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing the United Nations, and Belle Sherwin, the suffragist leader and president of the League of Women Voters from 1921 to 1924. Technocracy, National Industrial Management is inscribed, "Miss Belle Sherwin Compliments of W. H. Smyth". Technocracy, Explained by its Originator is inscribed, "Hon. Cordell Hull Compliments of W. H. Smyth". All four copies were de-accessioned from the Library of Congress and have its concomitant stamps. A manuscript note on the front pastedown of National Industrial Management suggests that this copy may have been inscribed at a convention of the League of Women Voters on 19 December 1932. Smyth was an engineer credited with coining the term "technocracy" in 1919 to express his vision of the reorganization of society on principals of science and democracy. Similarly to Veblen, he envisioned a national council of scientists that would control all national institutions. Technocracy, First and Second Series (1921) was originally published in Industrial Management (1919). The other three titles are offprints from the Berkeley Daily Gazette. Anders Esmark, The New Technocracy, 2020; Kevin Starr, Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California, 1996. Four offprints, octavo. Original wire-stitched blue wrappers lettered in black. Wrappers toned, corners of National Industrial Management wrappers chipped, short closed tear at head of one offprint with a few marks. A good set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Four offprints on "technocracy". Technocracy, First and Second Series; Technocracy, National Industrial Management; Technocracy, Explained by its Originator; Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before.
• Publisher: Berkeley, California: reprinted from The Gazette, 1921-33
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)