New York, Doubleday Doran & Co., 1932. First edition. In-8, 208 x 147 mm (8¼" x 5¾"), xvi + 322 pp. Blue navy hardcoved, frontcover embossed with an Art Deco-style eagle, author's name and title written in gold on the top of the spine, editor's name on the bottom. Pen signature from the ex-owner on the first free end paper. Foreword ("Lonely Uncle Sam"), Table of contents, an Index at the end of the book.

"Our present-day world is a perilous world. Everything seems in flux. Nations and races jostle and wrangle for place and power on a planet which science and invention are effectively shrinking with each succeeding decade. Economic and political rivalries grow keener. Ideas such as Communism and Fascism have brought, not peace, but a sword. The relatively stable pre-war order has vanished, and a new stabilization is nowhere in sight. All is transition; nothing can be taken for granted." (Foreword, pp. vi-vii)

A very good copy. The inside is clean, only some faint traces of rubbing on the front cover and top of the spine. Quite a rare find nowadays!

As Stoddard likes to do, Lonely America is a survey of the other civilizations at the time of the writing. Though it is mainly geopolitical in nature, it encompasses an economic analysis, a metapolitical point of view and notions of anthropology that will be deemed heretical a few decades later.

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950) graduated from Harvard University in 1914. His doctorate thesis about the French Revolution in San Domingo (Haiti) was published on the same year. After the first World War, he contributed to the eugenics movement and to racial analysis attempts of history. His books The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1921) and The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (1924) were best-sellers on their time. Though Stoddard was shoddily associated to Nazism after the Second World War - ignoring the fact that he blamed "Teutonic Imperialism" for wars and looked on the Third Reich with a typical gentleman's composure in his book Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today (1940) - and buried for decades, his works have been the topic of a renewed interest since the 2010's.

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