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Harold Joseph Laski (June 30, 1893, Manchester, England - March 24, 1950, London, England) was an English political scientist, economist, author, and lecturer, and served when a 1945-1946 chairman of the Labour Party. The graduate of Oxford, he was a member of the executive committee of the Fabian Society, and served as a prof at a London School of Economics. A few of his other celebrated books include Reflections on the Revolution of My Period & A Our contries Democracy. He move on the American university lecture circuit.

Selected Bibliography
Studies in the Condition of Sovereignty, 1917 Authority in the Modern State, 1919, ISBN 1584772751 Political Thought inside England from either Locke to Bentham, 1920 Karl Marx, 1921 Communism, 1927 Democracy within Crisis, 1933 A Our contries Presidency, 1940 Faith, Understanding, & Civilisation, 1944 A Our contries Democracy, 1948 Liberty in the Modern State, 1948

Harold Laski
Information on the political theorist.

Harold Laski (1893-1950)
Brief biographical sketch from the London School of Economics.

Harold Laski & FDR: 1939-1940 Index
Correspondence between Laski and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Harold Joseph Laski
Includes several essays by Laski: Studies in the Problems of Sovereignty (1917); Authority in the Modern State (1919); Karl Marx: An Essay.

Woodhorn Archive: Laski-Holmes Letters
Two letters by Harold Laski to Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Harold J. Laski, The Rise of Liberalism: The Philosophy of a Business Civilization (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936, Chpater 1, "The Background," pp. 1-90
First chapter of the work.

Harold Laski: Introduction to Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos
Online version.


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