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KARL MARX  by Isaiah Berlin  [[handwritten comment pointing to Berlin]] Lugan born Jew at Oxford
KARL MARX  by Isaiah Berlin  [[handwritten comment pointing to Berlin]] Lugan born Jew at Oxford
Here is the definitive source-book on the life of the brilliant and bitter emigre who fathered Communism - and in his last das cried, "I am not a Marxist!"  The genius raging in a garret...the paranoid seeing enemies behind every door...the recluse in the reading room of theBritish Museum...the vengeful enemy of the bourgeoisie...the devoted father...Marx was all these and [[circled in ink with line leading to handwritten comment]] the totality of the man [[written comment:  Impossible - of any man or woman.]] is in this 246-page book.
Here is the definitive source-book on the life of the brilliant and bitter emigre who fathered Communism - and in his last days cried, "I am not a Marxist!"  The genius raging in a garret...the paranoid seeing enemies behind every door...the recluse in the reading room of theBritish Museum...the vengeful enemy of the bourgeoisie...the devoted father...Marx was all these and [[circled in ink with line leading to handwritten comment]] the totality of the man [[written comment:  Impossible - of any man or woman.]] is in this 246-page book.
 
THE TRUE BELIEVER by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer is a 67-year-old San Francisco longshoreman who is [[underlined in ink with line to a handwritten comment:  also a first-rank proletarian philosopher.]] [[written comment:
Super-FINK!]]  In this remarkable book, sub-titled "A Classic Study of Mass Movements,"  Hoffer traces the origins of revolutions, explains how their leaders arise and demonstrates, says Sidney Hook in his new introduction, that "all fanatics are brothers under the skin."  His insights into hate, love and religion and "the virtues" are brilliant--and disturbing.
 
LIONS, HARTS, LEAPING DOES  by [[circled in ink: J.F. Powers]] 
"In these stories," says Peter DeVries in his introduction, Powers "makes no pawky attempts to humanize the clergy...he portrays priests practicing their profession, not their religion.  We are inside the rectory...with no advance notice to the housekeeper or to the priests.  This [[underlined in ink with handwritten comment beside it:  is the Church in dishabille.]]  [[written comment:  (Sir!) ]]  The subject of Mr. Powers' stories is the Household of Faith...a brilliantly etched cross section..."
 
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
A red-necked farm boy-lawyer hooped and hollered into the governorship of Louisiana in 1928 and for seven years ran the state like an independent duchy.  When an assassin's bullet cut him down in his own statehouse, Huey Long was reaching for the White House.  This novel is the study of the rise to power of a man like "The Kingfisher," his demagoguery, his coterie of courtiers, his women, his fatal clash with the old order.  The book won the Pulitzer Prize.
 


If these are four books you have meant to read, by all means send the attached order form.  Now is the only time this year that the TIME READING PROGRAM will send them to you for just 25 cents each.
If these are four books you have meant to read, by all means send the attached order form.  Now is the only time this year that the TIME READING PROGRAM will send them to you for just 25 cents each.

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two pages of an advertisement for books from Time magazine with multiple hand-written comments throughout

How goes the BATTLE against the Bottle of the Tillery TWO? - Joe Jack - Isnt it mortifying to think these 4 authors wound up at 25c each! O Tempora! O Mores! JC Diggles NN-RC-AA in left margin I had a card from NN-Founder Walsh Resting in Michigan. It Reads: "Remorseless Laziness equals perfect mutual happiness." - Turgenev. (or was it Ty Cobb?). Peace and FJ happiness at bottom of page They go on Killing Professors at the UofC - but so far M S Bowen is unscathed I visited Big Colsumo's Mausoleum the other day - in Oakwood May 11, 1970 is the 50th ANN of his assassination (allegedly by Frankie Yale). I think we, Prohibition survivors might well show up at his stone House and place some Jonquils on the STOOP. "How sleep the brave?----" - JC Diggles. NN in right margin Since DeGaulle quit I just sort of feel lost and vaguely upset. -JCD

magazine pages The only time this year that TIME readers will be invited to TAKE ALL FOUR BOOKS...ONLY $1 Photographs of four book covers drawing of hair and beard around name KARL MARX ISAIAH BERLIN hand-written comment with arrow pointing to book: 2 Jews: cheap ERIC HOFFER THE TRUE BELIEVER drawing of robotic head being filled by different colored balls [[hand-written comment with arrow pointing to book: NOT my idea of a "True Believer" ! LIONS, HARTS, LEAPING DOES AND OTHER STORIES J. F. POWERS abstract painting of a seated figure and man with bowed head hand-written comment with arrow pointing to book: Exiled Irish ex-Con ALL THE KING'S MEN ROBERT PENN WARREN Painting of orator on a stage with crowd staring up at him hand-written comment: an unfriendly View of the late Senator Long

KARL MARX by Isaiah Berlin handwritten comment pointing to Berlin Lugan born Jew at Oxford Here is the definitive source-book on the life of the brilliant and bitter emigre who fathered Communism - and in his last days cried, "I am not a Marxist!" The genius raging in a garret...the paranoid seeing enemies behind every door...the recluse in the reading room of theBritish Museum...the vengeful enemy of the bourgeoisie...the devoted father...Marx was all these and circled in ink with line leading to handwritten comment the totality of the man written comment: Impossible - of any man or woman. is in this 246-page book.

THE TRUE BELIEVER by Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer is a 67-year-old San Francisco longshoreman who is underlined in ink with line to a handwritten comment: also a first-rank proletarian philosopher. [[written comment: Super-FINK!]] In this remarkable book, sub-titled "A Classic Study of Mass Movements," Hoffer traces the origins of revolutions, explains how their leaders arise and demonstrates, says Sidney Hook in his new introduction, that "all fanatics are brothers under the skin." His insights into hate, love and religion and "the virtues" are brilliant--and disturbing.

LIONS, HARTS, LEAPING DOES by circled in ink: J.F. Powers "In these stories," says Peter DeVries in his introduction, Powers "makes no pawky attempts to humanize the clergy...he portrays priests practicing their profession, not their religion. We are inside the rectory...with no advance notice to the housekeeper or to the priests. This underlined in ink with handwritten comment beside it: is the Church in dishabille. written comment: (Sir!) The subject of Mr. Powers' stories is the Household of Faith...a brilliantly etched cross section..."

ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren A red-necked farm boy-lawyer hooped and hollered into the governorship of Louisiana in 1928 and for seven years ran the state like an independent duchy. When an assassin's bullet cut him down in his own statehouse, Huey Long was reaching for the White House. This novel is the study of the rise to power of a man like "The Kingfisher," his demagoguery, his coterie of courtiers, his women, his fatal clash with the old order. The book won the Pulitzer Prize.


If these are four books you have meant to read, by all means send the attached order form. Now is the only time this year that the TIME READING PROGRAM will send them to you for just 25 cents each. The point of this offer is to prove that one can regain lost literary ground with the simple and sensible TIME READING PROGRAM. This is a much-praised book distribution plan that offers readers the most worthwhile books of modern times--without demanding that you buy any particular number of volumes. The titles made available to you are a diverse mix of everything which interests perceptive adults -- fiction, biography, philosophy, humor, social science, travel, biology, belles lettres. Offerings include Nabokov's [[italics: Bend Sinister,] Dylan Thomas' italics: The Doctor and the Devils, Jenkins' italics: Elizabeth the Great, Joyce's [[italics: A Portrait of the Artist,] Mencken's italics: In Defense of Women, von Frisch's italics: Man and the Living World. Permanence, readability and intellectual enrichment are the criteria which guide the editors of TIME in their selection. They preface each book and place it in its context as a classic. An authority in the book's field is commissioned to write an introduction which encapsules the book's purpose, background and import. To receive the four-book set pictured above, just mail the postpaid order form. There will be no obligation to keep the books; you may read them for 10 days free. If you do retain them, you pay only $1. You will then receive a new package of four books every other month on a 10 day approval basis. But you need not keep any sets at all; those you keep are only $4.95 per set, plus postage and handling. You may cancel the entire Program at any time. Please send the order form now while stocks of this first package are ample. TIME-LIFE BOOKS, italics: Time & Life Building, Chicago, Illinois 60611. "All with whom I share these volumes are impressed by the high quality of the selections." --Millard E. Gladfelter, President Temple University "All are pearls plucked from the staggering torrent of books spilling endlessly from the presses." -- Victor P. Hass, Book Edition Omaha World-Herald "Just about the most beautifully printed and bound paperbacks published." -- Chicago Sunday American "TRP looks great to me...particularly good for adults...You are performing a real service in getting these books out so inexpensively to such a wide audience." -- John R. Everett, President New School for Social Research

Plastic-bound volumes of exceptional beauty and quality: 5 ¼" x 8" -- half again as large as the average paperback -- Set in large, legible type with ample margins -- Many volumes handsomely illustrated with line drawings, photographs and maps -- Each cover is conceived by an outstanding artist and printed in color.