Studies in Crap: Today’s American Democracy
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
Today’s American Democracy
Author: John Lincoln Williams and Palmer Peckham Howard
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
Date:1943
Discovered at: Maj-R-Thrift, 2844 W. 47th
The Cover Promises: Social studies! Also, up there, at the top — postmark or bacon?
Representative Quotes:
page 163, “There seems to be no ground for the belief that members of one race are decisively physically superior to those of another. Concerning the relative mental abilities of various races, however, there is less certainty.”
page 365: “Propaganda is an attempt to influence people toward a certain view. Hence, it is a means to an end. This end may be desirable for human welfare.”
