The God that Failed [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Richard Grossman, m.p. biographical note: Richord Cwssnuin was born on December 15, 1907 The son of a barrister, later Mr. Justice Grossman, he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he took first-class honors in classics and philosophy. He remained at Oxford as a Fellow of New College for eight years, teaching Plato and political theory, and simultaneously began his political career as a Socialist on the Oxford City Council. In 1937 he became the Labour candidate for Coventry, which he won in the 1945 election. In 1938 he became Assistant Editor of the New Statesman and Nation, a position he still holds. During the war he served first in the Foreign Office and then on General Eisenhowers Staff, as an expert on Germany in charge of enemy propaganda. In 1946 he served on the Anglo-American Commission on Palestine, and as a result became the leading English opponent of Mr. Bevins Palestine policy. Bibliography: Plato Today, Government and the Governed, Palestine Mission. his book was conceived in the heat of argument. I was staying with Arthur Koestler in North Wales, and one evening we had reached an unusually barren deadlock in the 1