1st Edition
Free-Market Socialists European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918-1968
By Joseph Malherek
Copyright 2022
406 Pages
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Central European University Press
The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen—an architect and urban planner—made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction: What's Socialist about Capitalism?, I. New Republics and New Ideas, II. Exile and Underground, III. New Deal in a New Country, IV. Making Postwar America, CONCLUSION, Bibliography, Archives and Manuscript Collections, Index
Biography
Joseph Malherek was recently the Junior Botstiber Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, and he has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of Vienna.
