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Synopsis

The reith lectures for 1948-9. the first reith lectures.

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. 125 pp. + [3] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original yellow cloth with green titles, in unclipped dust wrapper with sunned spine. Spine slightly sunned and a little foxing of flyleaves, fore edge and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Decorated by publisher's devices on half title and colophon pages. The philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) examines the balance between the authority of state power and the freedom of the individual set in the context of human history. The first of the continuing series of broadcast annual Reith lectures inaugurated by the BBC in 1947.