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Zig-zag-and-swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's quest for greatness /
Alfred W. Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930's calling for the abolition of banks and interest, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This unusual institution, constant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
1991.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Prologue: "Yes, Alfred William Lawson is God's great eternal gift to man"; Part One: Seedtime of a Self-made Man; 1. Childhood Days; 2. The Magic Man of Baseball; 3. Born Again; Part Two: Fanning the Aeronautical Blaze; 4. Aircraft Industry Builder; 5. The Columbus of the Air; Part Three: From Aviator to Avatar; 6. The Wizard of Reason and the Origin of Lawsonomy; 7. The New Emancipator and His Perfect Economic Plan; 8. The Man of Destiny and the Direct Credits Crusade; 9. The First Knowledgian and the Upgrading of Humanity; Part Four: Utopia in Des Moines
- 10. Toward the Self-perpetuating Social Body 11. Alma Mater of the New Species; 12. Collapsing Equaeverpoise; Part Five: Lawsonian Legacies; 13. The Last Knowledgians; 14. Lawson and America; Notes and Sources; Index