Author: Cargill, Oscar
Title: Intellectual America: Ideas on the March
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1941. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1941. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY OSCAR CARGILL - Octavo, reddish brown cloth. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with the cloth worn at the corners. The spine is a bit darkened with a white score mark & a light stain. There is a chip to the spine's head & slight fraying to its head, tail & mid- section. xxi, [1] leaf & 777 pages. The gutters are darkened & there is some light soiling to the preliminary pages. There is a small stain to the bottom edge. Good.

First edition.

The author's copy inscribed to his wife on the front endpaper: "To Gladys / the first copy of this book / Oscar / October 7, 1941".

Cargill makes a distinction between orderly systems of thought or philosophies and ideologies. He coins the word "ideodynamics" for his "descriptive study of ideologies and of the results of the forces which they exert". Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; IDEOLOGIES; IDEODYNAMICS; INTELLECTUAL AMERICA: IDEAS ON THE MARCH; OSCAR CARGILL; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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