The Pentagon of Power

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974 - Fiction - 496 pages
In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.

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Contents

RETURN OF THE SUN GOD
28
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE
51
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION
77
Copyright

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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. He is the author of The City in History, The Culture of Cities, Condition of Man, Interpretations and Forecasts, and Sketches from Life.

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