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Harold Laski: A Life on the Left.

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From: Washington Monthly
Date: 19931101
Author:Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

Harold Laski, the leftist British intellectual, knew Churchill, advised FDR, and dazzled Oliver Wendell Holmes. So why has posterity forgotten him?

Does anyone still remember Harold Laski? Sixty years ago he was a famous - in some circles notorious - figure. A professor of political science at the London School of Economics, he was known round the world as the evangelist of democratic socialism. In Britain, he regularly led the polls in the vote for the Labour Party's National Executive. In America, he was on close terms with Franklin Roosevelt and half a dozen Supreme Court ...

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