[Signed] [First Edition] Essay in Politics Buchanan

Discussion of "the current crisis in the consent of the governed"; Buchanan argues this principle is muddled by the corporate powers to which citizens must consent, which he believes must be reconsidered in economic & political terms. Laid in is a presentation card signed by Buchanan (as just "Scott") to a colleague, Julius Seelye Bixler, whose bookplate is affixed inside the front cover. Buchanan was a philosopher & reformer now best remembered as the cofounder of the Great Books liberal arts program at St. John's College in Annapolis; Bixler was president of Colby College from 1942-1960. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition, listing no later printings. Light wear to book, corners bumped; jacket lightly rubbed & foxed with minor chipping, couple of short tears, creases; bookplate. Text clean; xiii, blank, 236 pages; bibliography, index. Size: Small Octavo

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