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• Physical Description: xxiii, 850, iv pages 24 cm
• Edition: [1st ed.].
• Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1966.

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Propaganda under a dictatorship / Aldous Huxley -- The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- On liberal knowledge / John Henry Newman -- The most cheerful graveyard in the world / Paul Jacobs -- Four essays from democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Concluding remarks from American notes / Charles Dickens -- Instinct and civilization / Sigmund Freud -- From reflections on the guillotine / Albert Camus -- God sees the truth, but waits to tell / Leo N. Tolstoy -- From the crito / Plato -- The committee of 100 / Bertrand Russell -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The nature of the battle over censorship / Walter Lippmann -- Defense of the freedom to read / Henry Miller -- The unbeliever and Christians / Albert Camus -- Letter to President Roosevelt / Albert Einstein -- The grand academy of Lagado / Jonathan Swift -- The morning of the day they did it / E.B. White -- On privacy: the American dream, what happened to it / William Faulkner -- From racism -- the ism of the modern world / Ruth Benedict -- The respective characteristics of the three great races / Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau -- Nation and race / Adolf Hitler -- Letter to the North / William Faulkner -- Faulkner and desegregation / James Baldwin -- Notes of a painter / Henri Matisse -- The function of art / Ernst Fischer -- What can the artist do in the world of today? / Albert Camus -- Why I write / George Orwell -- The literature of knowledge and the literature of power / Thomas de Quincey -- A book that influenced me / E.M. Forster.

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