Politics Personality and Social Science in the Twentieth CenturyArnold A. RogowLabel: University of Chicago PressDescription: Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology psychology and psychiatry economics law anthropology and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness unconventionality and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays many of whom are former students or collaborators view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time.
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