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Dedication to Mary, Tommy, Charlie and Thayer. Small 4to. (23 cm.) [2]204[1]p. Stiff heavy cream-colored cardstock covers printed in black and with black letters on the spine. Just touches of wear to extremities, covers somewhat darkened from age, corners square and flat, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Prynce Hopkins (1885 - 1970), who was born Prince Charles Hopkins, was an American Socialist, pacifist and author of numerous psychology books and periodicals. He was jailed and fined for his strident anti-war views, pro-union activities, and investigated for his associations with such social reformers as Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman. Hopkins used a #3M inheritance to fund leftist causes, which he labeled the "uplift movement," and self-publish books on psychoanalysis, social reform and religion, including, one presumes, the book offered here. Educated at Yale (BA), Columbia University (MA) and London University (Ph.D. in psychology), Hopkins owned and ran a school in Santa Barbara, California, called "Boyland" (1913), one of the first Montessori schools in the nation. Following WW I, Prynce moved to England and France, where he owned and ran a school for boys (the Chateau de Burres) based on Montessori-like methods. During the 1940s, while living in Pasadena, California, and no longer a Pacifist, Hopkins published a socialist journal titled "Freedom" and lectured on comparative religion at Pomona College. Hopkins was known for his unorthodox approach to social reform. His interests in mixing psychology, social reform and theology resulted in several books, including Father or Sons? (1927), The Psychology of Social Movements; a Psycho-Analytic View of Society (1938) and From Gods to Dictators: Psychology of Religions and their Totalitarian Substitutes (1944). Hopkins was indicted by a federal Grand Jury on charges of violating the Espionage Act and arrested. His arrest was based less on spying and more for impeding Army recruiting. The U.S. Department of Justice raided "Boyland" and seized anti-war literature and other material as evidence. Hopkins was an anti-smoking activist and authored the book Gone Up in Smoke: An Analysis of Tobaccoism, in 1948. He was one of the first to warn the public of medical and social problems associated with tobacco. He documented the shortened life and diseases caused by smoking. Hopkins, according to one biographer, was a ?true Renaissance man,? who had the financial means to pursue such wide-ranging interests as anarchism, pacifism, Zen Buddhism, psychoanalysis, engineering, and architecture. These are his memoirs and, please note, the volume offered here is the true first edition, not the one published in 1962 by Traversity Press. This edition is not listed in OCLC. A rare copy of the first edition of Hopkins' memoirs. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009127
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