{"product_id":"talcott-parsons-on-national-socialism","title":"Talcott Parsons on National Socialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993. First ed., first printing (full number line). Small quarto with brown cloth boards in red and white pictorial jacket; vii; 355p; index; 23.5cm Very good(+) in very good (+) jacket; both are foxed at upper and fore edges; book has dog-ears on pg. 219-322; some light pencil notes on table of contents, else clean and tight. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncommon. \"During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) in its efforts to bring about the defeat of the Third Reich and to set the stage for a democratic reconstruction of Germany in the postwar period. The essays in this collection are the by-products of that period of intense commitment. [...] Gerhardt's exhaustive editorial labors in the Parsons archive at Harvard have yielded nothing less than a \"new book\" by the foremost American sociological theorist of his time. This collection of both published and unpublished writings conveys Parsons's cohesive intent. To these otherwise fugitive and neglected essays Gerhardt contributes a lengthy introductory essay of her own -- in part biography, in part intellectual and social history-- on Parsons's \"lost years.\" \" -- Jacket copy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerhardt, Uta (Editor); Parsons, Talcott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021910900994,"sku":"106639","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/106639.jpg?v=1794328293","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/talcott-parsons-on-national-socialism","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}