Money Writes!

Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Thus. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. 1st THUS (Albert & Charles Boni - 1927) No marks in text. Binding is sound. No DJ. . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Chrysotropism -- 2.) Fishes and pike -- 3.) Being somebody -- 4.) The settin' down job -- 5.) What the public wants -- 6.) The muckraking era -- 7.) The excrementa of tsardom -- 8.) Artificial selection -- 9.) Young America -- 10.) Episcopal thinking -- 11.) Social antitoxins -- 12.) Literary vigilantes -- 13.) Red versus white -- 14.) The fascist career -- 15.) The great dog Lorrimor -- 16.) Art and the trader -- 17.) Incense to Mammon -- 18.) Romance and reaction -- 19.) The ivory tower -- 20.) The charm-poacher -- 21.) The tattooed novelist -- 22.) The bookleggers -- 23.) The ex-muckrakers -- 24.) Muddlement -- 25.) An American victory -- 26.) Boobus Americanus -- 27.) The critic-caste -- 28.) Speaking to God -- 29.) The heart of charity -- 30.) Choose your poet -- 31.) The family lawyer -- 32.) Adonais -- 33.) Bacchus' train -- 34.) The ex-furnaceman -- 35.) The springs of pessimism -- 36.) A visit to Boston -- 37.) The tension of friendship -- 38.) Pavel Jerdanovitch -- 39.) The tramp poet -- 40.) The days departed -- 41.) The soap-box -- 42.) Homo unius libri -- 43.) A friend in need -- 44.) The rebel band -- 45.) The new playwrights -- 46.) The double standard -- 47.) The art of brotherhood. . . . . . . From the authors preface: All my childhood and youth I heard a formula: Money talks! I never had any money, so to me the formula meant: Shut up! Now the world has moved on and talking is out of date. It is by means of the printed word that the modem world is controlled. So the formula must be altered: Money writes! This book is a study of American literature from the economic point of view. It takes our living writers, and turns their pockets inside out, asking. Where did you get it? and What did you do for it? It is not a polite book, but it is an honest book, and it is needed. It concludes a series, begun ten years ago, including The Profits of Religion, The Brass Check, The Goose-step, The Goslings, and Mammonart. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.