Ebook: The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

The CBC Massey Lectures, an annual broadcasting fixture for more than 45 years and Canada's preeminent public lecture series, featured some of the finest talks by some of the greatest minds of modern times. In this extraordinary collection, major thinkers offer passionate polemics on the major issues of the 20th century. Here are King on race and prejudice; Galbraith on economics and poverty; Jacobs on Canadian cities and Quebec separatism; Goodman on the moral ambiguity of America; Brandt on international peace; Kierans on globalism and the nation-state; and much more. Their words not only ha.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction by Bernie Lucht; The Underdeveloped Country by John Kenneth Galbraith; Author's Introduction; I. Underdevelopment and Social Behavior; Ii. Underdevelopment and Social Behavior (Continued); Iii. Cause and Classification; Iv. Cause and Classification (Continued); V.A Differential Prescription; The Moral Ambiguity of America by Paul Goodman; I. The Empty Society; Ii. Counter-Forces for a Decent Society; Iii. The Morality of Scientific Technology; Iv. Urbanization and Rural Reconstruction; V. The Psychology of Being Powerless.