The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]

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Pickle Partners Publishing, 21 Eki 2016 - 192 sayfa
Author Henry Grady Weaver was convinced that human liberty is the mainspring of progress, and that government tends always to tyranny. In this book, first published in 1947, Weaver popularizes these themes for the American people.

This is the Revised Edition first published in 1953, containing Weaver’s revisions discussed and agreed prior to his untimely death in 1949.
 

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THE AUTHOR AND THE BOOK
PART IITHE OLD WORLD VIEWS 19
PART IIITHE REVOLUTION 40
Chapter 8THE FIRST ATTEMPT 40
Chapter 10THE SECOND ATTEMPT 51
Chapter 11PRELUDE TO THIRD ATTEMPT 67
Chapter 13ROOTS OF REVOLUTION 85
Chapter 14THE UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL 92
PART IVFRUITS OF FREEDOM 108
Chapter 19HOPE VERSUS FEAR 121
Chapter 20MORAL VERSUS MATERIAL 130
Chapter 21FREEDOM VERSUS WAR 134
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 142

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Henry Grady Weaver (December 24, 1889 - January 3, 1949) was the director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, and shown on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time Magazine. Born at Eatonton, Georgia, he received his B.S. from Georgia Tech in 191, and held a series of jobs in various phases of the automobile industry until 1921, when he joined General Motors. He soon became head of its Customer Research Staff and was judged of sufficient importance in his field to be the Time magazine “cover man” for its issue of November 14, 1938. He is the author of many articles on psychological research. Henry Grady Weaver died on January 3, 1949.

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