Zig-Zag-and-Swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness.
Title:
Zig-Zag-and-Swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness.
Author:
Henry, Lyell D.
ISBN:
9781587291081
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (357 pages)
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NONE
Contents:
Contents -- 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 -- 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.
Abstract:
Alfred W. Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930s 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 1940s and early 1950s, was dedicated not only to teaching Lawson's novel religious and scientific ideas but also to initiating a reform of human nature.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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