
What Not
MIT Press
Will be published approx. on 4. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-262-54430-6 (ISBN)
Description
"A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved British writer best known for The Towers of Trebizond - worked in the British Propaganda Dept. during WWI. When British censors discovered that What Not ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, its 1918 publication was stopped. An influence on Huxley's "Brave New World.""--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54430-6 (9780262544306)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Rose Macaulay; introduction by Matthew De Abaitua