| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 336 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface; Prologue: "Yes, Alfred William Lawson is God's great eternal gift to man"; Part One: Seedtime of a Self-made Man; 1. Childhood Days; 2. The Magic Man of Baseball; 3. Born Again; Part Two: Fanning the Aeronautical Blaze; 4. Aircraft Industry Builder; 5. The Columbus of the Air; Part Three: From Aviator to Avatar; 6. The Wizard of Reason and the Origin of Lawsonomy; 7. The New Emancipator and His Perfect Economic Plan; 8. The Man of Destiny and the Direct Credits Crusade; 9. The First Knowledgian and the Upgrading of Humanity; Part Four: Utopia in Des Moines |
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10. Toward the Self-perpetuating Social Body 11. Alma Mater of the New Species; 12. Collapsing Equaeverpoise; Part Five: Lawsonian Legacies; 13. The Last Knowledgians; 14. Lawson and America; Notes and Sources; Index |
| Summary |
Alfred W. Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930's calling for the abolition of banks and interest, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This unusual institution, constantly embroiled in controversy in the 1940's and early 1950's, was dedicated not only to teaching Lawson's novel religious and scientific ideas but also to initiating a reform of human nature |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Lawson, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1869-1954
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| SUBJECT |
Lawson, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1869-1954 fast |
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Aircraft industry -- United States -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Aircraft industry
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United States
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Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90049730 |
| ISBN |
1587291088 |
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9781587291081 |
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