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The Danger of Being a Gentleman, and Other Essays

The Danger of Being a Gentleman, and Other Essays

By Harold J. Laski

270 pp, Viking, 1940

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The Danger of Being a Gentleman, and Other Essays

The Danger of Being a Gentleman, and Other Essays

By Harold J. Laski

270 pp, Viking, 1940

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Eight essays on social and political questions published between 1926 and 1938.

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