S I Hayakawa 1st Ed 1941 Language In Action A Guide To Accurate Thinking HC W/DJ
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Hardcover. 8vo. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, NY, 1941. 341 pgs. Book Club Edition. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with paper title label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Canadian-borm English professor and pollitician Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992) was president of San Francisco State Univ before servi...ng as California U.S. Senator from California (1977 to 1983). This volume is a discourse to dangers of propaganda, especially in regard to the choice of words and ensuing implications. Hayakawa noted everyone needs to have a habitually critical attitude towards language, one's own as well as that of others, both for the sake of his personal well being and for his adequate functioning as a citizen. As long as the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue. S I Hayakawa 1st Ed 1941 Language In Action A Guide to Accurate Thinking HC w/DJ
