What not
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022].
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022].
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Book
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xxxiii, 211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"This edition of What Not follows the text of the 1918 edition published by London Constable and Company LTD, which is in the public domain"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (page xxviii).
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"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.""--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Macaulay, R., & De Abaitua, M. (2022). What not . The MIT Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958 and Matthew De Abaitua. 2022. What Not. The MIT Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958 and Matthew De Abaitua. What Not The MIT Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Macaulay, Rose, and Matthew De Abaitua. What Not The MIT Press, 2022.
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