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Harold Loeb — Life in a Technocracy: What It Might Be Like — 1933 First Edition
This listing is for a scarce first-edition hardcover copy of Life in aTechnocracy: What It Might Be Like by Harold Loeb, published in NewYork by Viking in 1933.
Written during the interwar period, this book-length essay examines how atechnocratic society might affect everyday American life. Loeb considersquestions involving money, work, personal liberty, art, religion, familylife, standards of living, and the organization of society.
The dust jacket itself presents many of the book’s central questions,including:
- What would society use for money?
- Who would work, and who would direct that work?
- What would happen to art and artists?
- Would personal liberties be lost?
- What would determine the standard of living?
- Would churches, prisons, and theaters continue to exist?
- Could human nature undermine a technocratic system?
These questions give the book continued relevance for readers interested intechnology, politics, economics, automation, social planning, and debatesabout the future of society.
Details:
Title: Life in a Technocracy: What It Might Be Like
Author: Harold Loeb
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York
Publication Year: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Language: English
Genre: Political and social commentary
Subjects: Technocracy, money, labor, personal liberty, art, religion,
standards of living, and American society
Condition: Pre-owned vintage condition
Dust Jacket: Worn, with visible rips, tears, edge wear, and losses; pleasereview all photos carefully
Included Item: The hardcover book with dust jacket shown in the photos
Frame: Frame is not included
Display Notice: Books, lamp, artwork, furniture, and all decorative propsare not included
The exact book shown in the photographs is the one being offered. Pleasereview all images carefully for the dust jacket, cover, spine, corners,edges, binding, pages, markings, and overall presentation.
About Harold Loeb
Harold Loeb was an important figure in the American expatriate literarycommunity in Paris during the 1920s. He is also remembered for hisassociation with Ernest Hemingway and for serving as the inspiration forRobert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises.
Beyond his literary connections, Loeb wrote on economic and politicalsubjects, including the technocracy movement, which attracted significantinterest in the United States during the years between the two world wars.
Collector Appeal
This book would be of particular interest to collectors and researchers of:
- Early technocracy and automation
- Political and economic history
- 1930s social thought
- Utopian and dystopian studies
- Harold Loeb and the Paris expatriate community
- Ernest Hemingway-related literary history
- Rare interwar nonfiction
- Vintage Viking Press books
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