A group of 3 related pieces – Philosophy, Economics & Ideas.
(1) Noam Chomsky Signed Photograph, Linguist, Philosopher and Political Activist.
Black and white photograph of Noam Chomsky in later life, smiling, in a dark sweater with arms folded, signed in purple ink along the right edge. Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures" (1957) and theory of generative grammar transformed modern linguistics, and he has been one of the most widely read political critics of the past sixty years. Condition: clean.
(2) Eric Hoffer Signed Photograph with Pipe, Author of "The True Believer".
Photograph of Eric Hoffer with pipe, signed in blue ink; back stamped "SUN JAN 7 1968". Condition: toning.
(3) Gunnar Myrdal Signed United Nations Photograph, Dated 7/7/1965, Nobel Prize-Winning Swedish Economist, Author of "An American Dilemma".
Black and white portrait photograph of Gunnar Myrdal in a herringbone tweed three-piece suit with pocket square, signed "Gunnar Myrdal" and dated "7/7/1965" in blue ink across his jacket, with a further word beneath (probably "Stockholm"). The back carries the original United Nations press caption (UN 32826) in English and French, crossed through in red: "Informal portrait of Mr. Gunnar Myrdal, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe, in his office. Geneva, January 1951. Please credit: UNATIONS." "GUNNAR MYRDAL" is written in ink at the top. Myrdal's landmark study of race in the United States, "An American Dilemma" (1944), was cited by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with Friedrich Hayek. Condition: light edge wear and a few small marks.
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