Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler · 1 Jun 1984 · 286pp · 94,017 words
to understand the social and psychological implications of the technological revolution, this is an incomparable book." WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Explosive ... Brilliantly formulated." LONDON DAILY EXPRESS: "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society." LE FIGARO: "The best study of our times that I know ... Of all the books
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are marrying the insights of artists, poets, dramatists, and novelists to statistical analysis and operational research. The two cultures have met and are being merged. Alvin Toffler is one of the first exhilarating, liberating results." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "Packed with ideas, explanations, constructive suggestions ... Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant." NEWSWEEK: "In the risky
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and John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, while Michael Harrington's The Other America helped focus the concerns of the early 1960s. And now Alvin Toffler's immensely readable yet disquieting study may serve the same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world: even before reading the book, one is ready
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edition published 1970 Bantam edition published August 1971 2nd printing 3rd printing All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Copyright © 1970 by Alvin Toffler. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: Random House, Inc
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. 168-169. 159 The spread of Freudianism is discussed in [190], pp. 94-95. 161 Mr. Cornberg's quote can be found in "Libraries" by Alvin Toffler in Bricks and Mortarboards, A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., on College Planning and Building, p. 93. 166 For exposure to advertising messages see
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Wilds" by Tom Alexander in Fortune, December, 1967, p. 148. 439 On forecasting value change, see "Value Impact Forecaster—A Profession of the Future" by Alvin Toffler in [131]. 440-41 Scientists' resistance to regulation is commented on in "Change and Adaptation" by Amitai Etzioni in Science, December, 1966, p. 1533. 441
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in Playboy, June, 1969, p. 152. The non-economic interests of mutual funds are discussed in "The Funds of the Future: 2000 A.D." by Alvin Toffler, Channing Balanced Fund Annual Report, New York, 1969, p. 6. 453 Ford's "program related investment" program is described in "New Options in the Philanthropic
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M., This U.S.A. (New York: Doubleday, 1965.) [359] —, The American Workers' Fact Book. (Washington: United States Department of Labor, 1956.) ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALVIN TOFFLER has been an editor of FORTUNE and a Washington correspondent. He has written for scores of periodicals, ranging from LIFE, HORIZON and PLAYBOY to the
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
. In the seventh chapter, we turn to the longer-term consequences of the pandemic, especially the move to remote working. For forty years, futurists like Alvin Toffler have argued that electronic interactions would make face-to-face meetings unnecessary and that would lead to massive out-migration from cities. For forty years
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with the fastest possible Zoom connections? We turn to that possibility next. Chapter 7 WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF DOWNTOWN? Forty years ago, the futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that the industrial “second wave” of smokestacks and assembly lines would be followed by an information- and technology-intensive “third wave,” in which a
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our introduction, where decline begets decline, seemed to foretell the future of cities. That is the backdrop for Alvin Toffler’s 1980 prognostication about the rise of telecommuting. Alvin Toffler and the Triumph of Telecommuting Alvin Toffler was a true scion of New York City. His father made furs, the products of the clothing industry that
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: Hum, “Mapping Global Production in New York City’s Garment Industry: The Role of Sunset Park, Brooklyn’s Immigrant Economy.” Ralph Lauren: “Ralph Lauren,” Biography. Alvin Toffler: Schneider, “Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87.” “dizzying disorientation”: Toffler, Future Shock, 11. “the only remedy for the phenomenon of future shock”: Toffler, “The
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. from 90 million to 152 million: Data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “All Employees, Total Nonfarm.” “we did get a few things wrong”: Fisher, “Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview.” Late in life: Fisher. back to global preeminence: Z/Yen Group and China Development Institute, The Global Financial Centres Index 20
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for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903.” Journal of Economic History 52, no. 4 (December 1992): 826–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123229. Fisher, Lawrence M. “Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview.” Strategy+Business 45 (Winter 2006). www.strategy-business.com/article/06408. Fitton, Robert S. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester, UK
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and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.” Educational Researcher 41, no. 8 (November 2012): 294–308. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X12464517. Schneider, Keith. “Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87.” The New York Times, June 29, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books
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/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html. Schoen, Cathy, and Michelle M. Doty. “Inequities in Access to Medical Care in Five Countries: Findings from
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
be lost amid the chromium gleam.”19 Perhaps no author captured the information-age zeitgeist more thoroughly than a journalist and self-appointed futurist named Alvin Toffler. The hyperkinetic New Yorker had started his adult life as a Marxist civil rights activist, which he followed with several years experiencing the workingman’s
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’s the way it’s going to be, I don’t want to be here.” Nonetheless, Future Shock ultimately sold five million copies, and made Alvin Toffler into an inescapable seer of the information age.22 For all its wilder ideas and overstuffed prose, Toffler’s book was stunningly prescient. He predicted
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business books that alternately despaired about the state of the “old” American economy and made optimistic forecasts about its tech-driven future. Looming largest was Alvin Toffler, whose Future Shock had become a touchstone for information-overloaded Americans during the volatile 1970s. Toffler’s ardent fans included Regis McKenna, who readily admitted
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the dangers of feminism once prompted NOW to dub him “male chauvinist of the year.” Now Gilder had turned techno-futurist in the mold of Alvin Toffler, the essay’s fourth author, who supplied grandiose textural flourishes. Not a full-time Silicon Valley resident in the bunch, but all people whose ideas
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someone closely affiliated with the PFF, a party compatriot of Keyworth and Gilder, and someone who had spent years soaking in the futurist gospel of Alvin Toffler. That politician was Newt Gingrich.4 THE BOMB THROWER In his fifteen years in Congress, the Georgia congressman and House Minority Whip had become the
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Google News outpaced the all-purpose headlines provided by Yahoo! and AOL. There was now so much content surging around the Web that it made Alvin Toffler’s predictions of “information overload” seem quaint, and large quantity did not necessarily mean higher quality. The changes also encouraged a growing tribalism in a
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, 1964; repr., New York: Ig Publishing, 2014), 29–30. 19. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964). 20. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970), 186. 21. Henry Raymont, “‘Future Shock’: The Stress of Great, Rapid Change,” The New York Times, July 24
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Papers, M1141, SU; Peter J. Schuyten, “Subculture of Silicon Technology,” The New York Times, May 10, 1979, D2. 21. McKenna, The Regis Touch, xi. 22. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970), 29; Jobs quoted in Mills, “The Third Wave.” 23. Christian Williams, “Future Shock Revisited
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: Alvin Toffler’s ‘Wave,’” The Washington Post, March 31, 1980, B1. 24. “Tandy Radio Shack Assaults the Small Computer Market,” The Rosen Electronics Letter 80, no. 14 (
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
and Davos.45 This internet revolution was closely tied ideologically to visions of market freedom. Four cyberspace enthusiasts—Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler—encased their IT vision in a manifesto, “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age,” which they circulated in 1994. The
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a chance to start the world anew and to free humanity from past shackles. Drawing on the work of the acclaimed futurist in their ranks, Alvin Toffler, it framed the revolution in terms of “Third Wave” innovation.46 The First Wave had made land and labor “the main ‘factors of production’; the
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to what he had learned in school about the Gilded Age, when a previous generation of innovators was transforming America, in this case (to use Alvin Toffler’s terminology) from an agrarian first-wave to an urban-industrial second-wave economy.64 Then the innovators had been the captains of the railroads
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2005 in the midst of the Iraqi occupation. The book’s techno-utopianism echoed that of Clinton-era cyberspace enthusiasts Esther Dyson, George Gilder, and Alvin Toffler. But if the latter group was mostly focused on the cybernetic revolution as an American event, Friedman was struck by its global reverberations. Friedman was
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). 46.Alvin and Heidi Toffler had outlined their theory of the three waves in their bestselling 1980 book, Third Wave (New York: Bantam Books, 1980). Alvin Toffler had risen to prominence with his previous book Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970). 47.Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and
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Alvin Toffler, “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age,” http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html, accessed July 29,
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2021. 48.Dyson et al., “Cyberspace and the American Dream.” 49.Dyson et al., “Cyberspace and the American Dream.” Alvin Toffler had been born to Jewish immigrants in New York in 1928 and was exposed across his childhood and adolescence to leftist ideas circulating in his
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family milieu. He met his future wife, Heidi (Adelaide Elizabeth Farrell), while both were civil rights and labor activists in the 1940s. See Jill Leovy, “Alvin Toffler, Author of 1970 Bestseller ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87,” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2016, https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me
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/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html, accessed July 29, 2021; David Henry, “Alvin Toffler, Author of BestSelling ‘Future Shock’ and ‘The Third Wave,’ Dies at 87,” Washington Post, June 29, 2016, https
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://www.washingtonpost.com/business/alvin-toffler-author-of-bestselling-future-shock-and-the-third-wave-dies-at-87/2016/06/29/0d63748c-3e09-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html, accessed August 10,
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words
have taken inspiration also from thinking about what the great analysts of the past—Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Daniel Bell, Taichi Sakaiya, Alvin Toffler—would have made of the current situation. The future that appears on the horizon is not one that I desire for any country, or for
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the culture should raise alarm. The IT revolution once appeared to be launching a more democratic era in communications, with the “de-massified media” that Alvin Toffler optimistically predicted. But what looked like a more diverse and open media world, where anyone could be a reporter or reach an audience, is turning
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threaten their own fortunes.4 Thus the real cultural power lies in the “Brahmin left,” to use Thomas Piketty’s term.5 “Post-Economic Goals” Alvin Toffler predicted almost half a century ago that growing affluence would result in replacing the profit motive with more aesthetic goals, a quest for self-fulfillment
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week,” observes Wolfgang Lutz, a demographer. “Of course, they are not going to have children. They don’t have the time.”38 This echoes what Alvin Toffler in 1970 described as a growing immersion in work at the expense of family life. He envisioned a revolution in marriage that would result in
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Feudalism It was once widely hoped that emerging technologies would create a world of “new opportunities for personal growth, adventure and delight,” as the visionary Alvin Toffler wrote in Future Shock almost three decades ago. The prospect of a technologically advanced economy dangled like a bright gem for generations of utopian socialists
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by 2029,” Science Alert, March 16, 2017, https://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-director-of-engineering-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2029. 20 Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (New York: Bantam, 1980), 158–59; Kevin Carty, “Tech giants are the robber barons of our time,” New York Post, February 3
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Political Conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948–2017),” World Inequality Database, March 2018, http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf. 6 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970), 452. 7 John Benjamin, “Business Class,” New Republic, May 14, 2018, https://newrepublic.com/article/148368/ideology-business
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“Are we facing a future without families?” Maclean’s, December 4, 2012, https://www.macleans.ca/politics/are-we-facing-a-future-without-families/. 39 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970), 238–51. 40 Tim Henderson, “Growing Number of People Living Solo Can Pose Challenges,” Pew Charitable Trust, September
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.com/2018/11/sex-robots-hollywood-brothel-requires-consent-real-doll/. 22 Michel Houllebecq, Whatever, trans. Paul Hammond (London: Serpent’s Tale, 2011), 14. 23 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Bantam, 1984), 452, 186; Brian Merchant, “Fully automated luxury communism,” Guardian, March 18, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015
The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems-And Create More
by Luke Dormehl · 4 Nov 2014 · 268pp · 75,850 words
Wave Theory This notion of appealing to users based on their individual surfing habits taps—ironically enough—into the so-called wave theory of futurist Alvin Toffler.12 In his 1980 book The Third Wave, Toffler described the way in which technology develops in waves, with each successive wave sweeping aside older
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engagement index and unearthed by an algorithm in time for a future job interview. Here it is worth turning once more to the work of Alvin Toffler, whose concept of “demassification” laid out many of the principles described in this chapter. In The Third Wave, Toffler questions why it is that everyone
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have argued that in the digital world, previous classifications used for discrimination (including race, gender or sexuality) will fall away—if they haven’t already. Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave identifies a number of individuals and groups subtly or openly discriminated against during the last centuries and argues that this marginalization is
Bureaucracy
by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words
of remarkable advances, and the predominant popular impression during the sixties was that the pace of technological change was speeding up in terrifying, uncontrollable ways. Alvin Toffler’s 1970 breakaway bestseller Future Shock can be seen as a kind of high-water mark of this line of thought. In retrospect, it’s
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: Evolution of a Cultural Narrative” in The Societal Impact of Spaceflight, Stephen J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, eds. (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2009). 83. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970). 84. In this case, too, there’s a Soviet equivalent: the Tupolev TU-144, which was actually the
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few months before the Concorde in 1968, but was abandoned for commercial purposes in 1983. 85. Source: www.foundersfund.com/uploads/ff_manifesto.pdf. 86. Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (New York: Bantam Books, 1980). 87. Toffler’s own politics are slightly more ambiguous, but not much. Before the success of Future
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issues except to criticize them: for a typical example, see his Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives, Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler (New York: Doubleday, 2006), pp. 132–33. It is certainly curious that both Toffler and Gilder are so obsessed with the threat
Social Life of Information
by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid · 2 Feb 2000 · 791pp · 85,159 words
home office may seem little more than a click away, but predictions have put it just over the horizon for some time now. In 1980, Alvin Toffler predicted that within our lifetime urban downtowns would "stand empty, reduced to use as ghostly warehouses or converted into living space. "Yet a 1998 survey
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Terrestrial Intelligence. For more information, see http://seti.ssl.berkeley.edu [1999, July 21]. 3. The notion of the "third wave" comes from the futurist Alvin Toffler's (1980) book of the same name. Page 255 4. Indeed, the degree to which we complain about such technologies when they do go wrong
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words
whole that feels like it is far less than the sum of its parts. Chapter 6 Dawn of the Attention Age In 1980, bestselling futurist Alvin Toffler divided human history into three epochs in his book The Third Wave.[1] The first wave was the Neolithic revolution, which most anthropologists agree began
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Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 38. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 48 Chapter 6: Dawn of the Attention Age Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (New York: Random House, 1980). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 Toffler, The Third Wave, 12. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2 It was
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Under Cognitive Load,” British Journal of Psychology 113, no. 2 (2022): 412–33, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12540. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 9 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1970), 371. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 10 Toffler, Future Shock, 366. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 11 Herbert A. Simon
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller · 27 Oct 2009 · 756pp · 228,797 words
opposition to the draft. Perhaps the purest, least rhetorical, and hardest-hitting public statement of her views appeared in a March 1964 Playboy interview. With Alvin Toffler, who in 1970 would publish Future Shock, asking the questions, the text crackled with maverick intelligence. Explaining her choice of the dollar sign as an
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, Department of Homeland Security; Betsy Speicher; Ellen Stuttle; Joan Kennedy Taylor (deceased); William Thomas, director of programs at the Atlas Society; John Thornton; Henry Teitel; Alvin Toffler; James S. Valliant; Don Ventura; Jeffrey Walker; Mike Wallace; Greg Walsh, archivist, the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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24, 1946 (LOAR, pp. 265–66). a strain developed: Author interview with MW, June 21, 2004. she did not see it as a moral duty: Alvin Toffler, “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” Playboy, March 1964, p. 40. the old and the lame, she complained: Letter to Marjorie Williams, June 18, 1936 (LOAR
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Taylor,” p. 3. The station was WEVD, New York. didn’t comment on Nabokov’s lurid subject: In a March 1964 Playboy interview, AR told Alvin Toffler that she regarded Nabokov as a brilliant stylist but that his subjects and “sense of life” were evil; “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” p. 40
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Premises: It Is Earlier Than You Think,” TON, December 1964, p. 49. March 1964 Playboy interview: “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” pp. 38–43, 64. Alvin Toffler: Toffler visited AR’s apartment to conduct the interview. At first, she struck him as “a nice Russian-Jewish grandma.” When he admitted that he
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was like Marxism turned upside down,” he said. But he liked her and invited her to dinner with his wife and guests (author interview with Alvin Toffler, May 27, 2007). reached two and a half million people: Don Hauptman, “The ‘Lost’ Parts of Ayn Rand’s Playboy Interview,” Navigator, March 2004, p
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appearing in the Florence [S.C.] Morning News, May 22, 1936. Harold Strauss, “Soviet Triangle,” New York Times Book Review, April 19, 1936, p. 7. Alvin Toffler, “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” Playboy, March 1964, p. 38–43, 64. Samuel A. Tower, “Film Men Admit Activity by Reds, Sam Wood Lists Writers
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