Sidney Hook

[James Farmelant]

Sidnney Hook seems to have had conflicted feelings about his early
book *Towards an Understanding of Karl Marx.*  On the one hand he went
out of the way to suppress it even going so far as to specify in his will
that it never be republished.  On the other hand according to Tom he
produced an electrostencil version of the book to use in his classes.
Also in his memoirs *Out of Step* Hook boasted that his book played
a significant role in converting university students at Oxford and
Cambridge (the Cambridge spies?) to Communism.

			Jim Farmelant

On Tue, 26 May 1998 18:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Tom Condit
<tomcondit at igc.apc.org> writes:
>At 05:22 PM 5/26/1998 -0400, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
>>
>[snip] ... This is pure
>>conjecture based on a strong personal
>>and political dislike of the little fat man, and I'd never heard this
>>story before, but I bet he did the electrostencil just to tell people 
>he
>>did it. 
>>
>Actually he did it so he could assign it to students as required 
>reading in
>a course at the University of Washington.
>
>

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