Free-Market Socialists European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918-1968

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....

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Yazar: Malherek, Joseph (auth)
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Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Central European University Press 2022
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