The State of the Union

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Autor(en)	Albert Jay Nock	Verlag	Liberty Fund, Inc.
Herausgeber	Charles H. Hamilton
Sachgebiet(e)	Sozial- und Wohlfahrtsstaat, English Books	ISBN	978-0-86597-093-9
1991, 297 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Edited and with a Foreword by Charles H. Hamilton

Here is social and intellectual criticism at its best - Jacques Barzun

This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his best-known essays, some outstanding but neglected articles, and previously unpublished material.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

I. A BIOGRAPHY OF IDEAS

1. The Purpose of Biography

2. The Value to the Clergyman of Training in the Classics

3. Autobiographical Sketch

4. Anarchist's Progress

5. The Path to the River 

II. THE CASUALTIES OF WAR

6. Peace the Aristocrat

7. The End and the Means

8. An Exhausted Virtue

9. Anglo-American Relations

10. Pointing a Moral

III. THE SOCIAL CRITIC

11. A Cultural Forecast

12. Criticism's Proper Field

13. Artemus Ward

14. Study in Paradoxes

15. Isaiah's Job

IV. THE HUMANE LIFE

16. What We All Stand For

17. Prohibition and Civilization

18. Our Pastors and Masters

19. The Decline of Conversation

20. One's Own Smoke

21. American Education

22. Snoring as a Fine Art

23. Pantagruelism

V. THE CULT OF POLITICS

24. In the Vein of Intimacy

25. The Leadership of Ideas

26. The State

27. Officialism and Lawlessness

28. The Return of the Patriots

29. "A Little Conserva-tive"

30. The Criminality of the State

31. Liberalism, Properly So Called

VI. MISCELLANY

32. Culture and Freedom

33. Miscellany

34. The Oxometer

35. Sinclair Lewis

36. Thoughts from Abroad

VII. CULTIVATING A SINGLE GARDEN

37. On Doing the Right Thing

Index

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