History & Political Science

THE SELECTION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS IN ANCIENT AND MODERN CHINA

THE SCIENCE AND VALUES OF ADMINISTRATION
... A general theory of management

DISCOVERING NATIONAL ELITES

RECONSTRUCTING AMERICAN HISTORY

THE CHICAGO MAYORAL ELECTION OF 1955

THE SELECTION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS IN ANCIENT AND MODERN CHINA

The great variety that often attends the satisfaction of a social need that different cultures possess is well illustrated by the different ways in which societies select public officers. From usurpation to a complicate election system, from curt appointment by superiors to carefully guarded merit systems, there range uncounted general systems for the filling of office. This writer's research project into election systems, of which the present study forms a part, employs over fifty major criteria for classifying a selection system . The ultimate number of methods of selection an election deserving separate consideration may well reach one thousand.

THE SCIENCE AND VALUES OF ADMINISTRATION
... A general theory of management

The author, asserting that all action is purposive, calls group-performed habitual actions "administration." The task of administrative science is to generalize about all administrative situations. How the science selects and abstracts data and chooses and phrases propositions is described. An administered situation has actors (sponsors or executives, participants, and clientele), targets' (goals), and effects. Goals are substantive and instrumental, and include especially power, wealth, and prestige. Power and control constitute the core value, reflected in the preponderance of deductive operations. Organizations formed around wealth and prestige tend to become executive-power centered. The wealth value is especially compatible with clientele-centered organizations, the prestige value with participant-centered groups. By this analysis of administration confined to statements of fact and relations, the science of administration is defined, giving us an understanding of the variables and of the laws of their interaction. But the elements of this science, as represented by his original definition and conception of administrative action, lend themselves well to translation into the applied science of administration, with which the balance of the essay is concerned.

DISCOVERING NATIONAL ELITES

Three prominent behavioral scientists tell how to discover and identify elite leaders, their groups, and different sectors of influence in world nations and localities. For propaganda, advertising, public relations, global business, military intelligence, and diplomacy, a simple methodology is prescribed. Prepared for U.S. State Department.

RECONSTRUCTING AMERICAN HISTORY

The Americans as inheritors of both Indian material habits and psychology, because compatible with cult and anarchism, the twin traits and behaviors of Americans from the beginning. Immigrants from the start are cruelly abused by their precursors, though less the Europeans than the Africans, but in the latter Twentieth Century, the world's most advanced culture develops from the contradictions. Every chapter (in 82 parts) a revelation of advanced novel theory.

THE CHICAGO MAYORAL ELECTION OF 1955

ROBERT E. MERRIAM'S CHALLENGE TO THE LEADERSHIP OF RICHARD J.DALEY
The Limits of External Leadership over a Minority Electorate
BY ALFRED DE GRAZIA

THE PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY
Vol. XX, No. 1, Spring 1956

(With the death of the two candidates discussed in this article, there is no longer, if there was ever, adequate reason to not reveal that they were Robert E. Merriam and Richard J. Daley [Mayor, 1955-1976]. The city called Metropolis is Chicago. The original anonymity was intended to present an abstract, impersonal, scientific account as an experiment in Political Science. Professor Lindsay Rogers of Columbia University, epitome of the journalist as political scientist, wrote with praise but in a kindly protest against hiding the names. The vivid analysis of a Chicago boss-days campaign employs the advanced techniques of the Chicago School of Political Science. Notable, too, is the early description of how racism excites its counterpart in the stubborn refusal of many blacks to assist whites in the punishment of one of their race, no matter how culpable even in respect to his own people. The O.J.Simpson murder case, coming decades later, surprised most people, with its acquittal of this defendant. His largely black jury was moved by the same ’inverted racism’ of the Chicago black electorate. Actually, white liberal consultants, so Dr. Ithiel Poole, Editor in charge of this POQ issue, informed Alfred de Grazia that there was opposition to printing his article, worrying that it might be thought to be anti-black, which it certainly was not. We note also the demonstration in this article of the beginnings of the white-black split that later broke down the New Deal majority over the nation.)

World War II:
The Love Letters Jill & Al 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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1942 FEBRUARY
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END: GOING HOME

Governing the World:
Schemes, Radical Globalism

THE AMERICAN STATE OF CANAAN

RECONSTRUCTING THE UNITED NATIONS

KALOTICS: KALOS

KALOTICS:
Where do we go from here?
The KALOTIC Strategy for World Survival

KALOTICS: METROPOLIS 1976

KALOTICS: 40 Stases and Theses

CLOUD OVER BHOPAL

THE AMERICAN STATE OF CANAAN

The peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of America

A NEW BOOK by Alfed de Grazia - Get it at AMAZON
or
VISIT THE CANAAN BLOG

Endless violence, terror and destruction have beset Palestine and Israel for over 60 years and brought instability and war to the Middle East. No formula for peace or welfare has worked. America has deeply compromised its moral and political leadership. The author proposes a stunning solution - the union of the Israeli and Palestinian people, including the Palestinian refugees, in the ancient region of Canaan - the biblical 'land of milk and honey' - simultaneously with the admission of Canaan to the United States of America as the 51st State. Make of the people of Canaan full citizens of the United States, with the right to settle anywhere in the United States and anywhere in Canaan. For every objection to Statehood, there springs forth an answer, and the answers add up to a peaceful and prosperous Union. The seemingly endless traumas, terror and threats visited upon the people pf the Middle East would diminish exponentially, and the profoundly damaged moral stature of the United States would be restored. The World could move on and dedicate itself to the problems which threaten our common survival.

RECONSTRUCTING THE UNITED NATIONS

A contribution of the Kalos movement to the plans for reforming the powers, structure, and conduct of the UN and other global institutions.

KALOTICS: Kalos

What is to be Done with Our World? A grand sweeping treatise on the nations of the world, the possibilities inherent in them to join up and obey the necessities of world union, and the structure that would allow them to do so, together with a manual of revolutionary methods.

KALOTICS:
Where do we go from here
The KALOTIC Strategy for World Survival

Behind a wall of bulletins prefiguring world economic collapse, the future is forming uncertainly. Its vagueness does not come from our ignorance of economic trends; we know about the disastrous course that poverty, population, and production are taking. The great mystery is political. What power, what organization will be conferred upon this emerging future? What politics, dominating the next generation, will dominate the subsequent millennium?

KALOTICS: METROPOLIS 1976

The problems of older cities in America are many and grave . The establishment of new cities, in consequence, has not received much attention. Apart hom a few general recommendations . including a report that urged the construction of over one hundred of them, little has been done to bring forward plans . costs, and arguments for cities of a half-million or more residents. At this moment it would appear that the bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence will suffer from a shortage of immediate events to celebrate, and it seems to this writer that the achievement of a new metropolis by 1976 would contribute substantially to this end . I have therefar set down here some notes on a research, design, and teaching program to produce the intellectual cadre for Metropolis 1976 . Assuming success in these efforts, I am suggesting how a group of independent and commercial sector leaders can take
over and build upon the plan .

KALOTICS: 40 Stases and Theses

Kalotics and World Relations. Contains the 40 stases and theses of global bads and goods, with accompanying gorgeous paintings by Licia Filingeri, and the Vienna and Leningrad Kalotic manifestos.

CLOUD OVER BHOPAL

A brilliant and highly readable report on the disaster from a pesticide factory explosion of Union Carbide Corporation of India that killed thousands and disabled over 100,000 persons, the worst industrial accident in history. An innovative accounting system and method of reparations are set forth and influenced jurisprudence in the case, but the ultimate compensation bogged down in bottom-line ideology and bureaucracy.

World-Catastrophy & Quantavolution

THE QUANTAVOLUTION SERIES OF BOOKS

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO QUANTAVOLUTION

QUANTAVOLUTION ENCYCLOPEDIA

QUANTAVOLUTION CD-ROM

THE ABRUPT ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

THE QUANTAVOLUTION SERIES OF BOOKS

ALFRED DE GRAZIA
COMPLETE WORKS
IN QUANTAVOLUTION AND CATASTROPHE
IN 15 VOLUMES

5,000 PAGES OF TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS
INCLUDING THREE VOLUMES WITH EARL R. MILTON
AND COLLABORATING SCHOLARS, AND WITH THE
PARTICIPATION OF I. VELIKOVSKY,
AND TWO BY HUGH CROSTHWAITE.

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO QUANTAVOLUTION

Charles Darwin said in 1869 in the "Origin of Species" that "anyone whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of a certain number of facts will certainly reject my theory." For a long time it seemed unwise to weigh too heavily the anomalies. Now the time has arrived when "unexplained difficulties" have become indeed too many for the Darwinian model of gradual incre-mental Evolution by natural selection to support. It should be replaced by a theory of Quantavolution. Or, at least, it should be placed up against a contrasting model....

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUANTAVOLUTION

Charles Darwin said in 1869 in the "Origin of Species" that "anyone whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of a certain number of facts will certainly reject my theory." For a long time it seemed unwise to weigh too heavily the anomalies. Now the time has arrived when "unexplained difficulties" have become indeed too many for the Darwinian model of gradual incremental Evolution by natural selection to support. It should be replaced by a theory of Quantavolution. Or, at least, it should be placed up against a contrasting model. That seems to be a task for an encyclopedia, not so much to collect all that has been said on the two conflicting ideas, as to allow an idea of the thousand points at which they clash. Hence, this Encyclopedia of Quantavolution and Catastrophe.

QUANTAVOLUTION CD-ROM

A CD-ROM on QUANTAVOLUTION, containing all the Quantavoilution texts and other Grazian-Archive CD-ROMs are available.
Contact metronax@gmail.com

THE ABRUPT ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

......I have cut short such an interminable discussion, at least theoretically, by carrying over my particular theory of change, which is called quantavolution, into the theory of language. The few minutes that are allowed to me here do not bode well for an introduction to a general theory, but I have the advantage of having published two books directly upon the subject of human development and human nature, and several other books as auxiliary support. I must, and therefore I may, be brusque in presenting the case for the quantavolutionary and hologenetic theory of language, and trust to your tolerance to allow this.....

Systems of Political & Social Science

THE AMERICAN WAY OF GOVERNMENT
National; State, and Local, at mid-twentieth century.

THE WESTERN PUBLIC

REPUBLIC IN CRISIS

VOLUME 1: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

VOLUME 2: POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE:
... translated into Vietnameese ...

THE APPLIED SCIENCE OF EQUALITY

PUBLIC & REPUBLIC

OPERATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

A NEW SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT ELECTION CRISIS !

SUPPORTING ART AND CULTURE: 1001 Questions on Culture Policy.

POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE

INSTRUCTION MANUAL for Politics for Better or Worse

LECTURES TO THE CHINESE ABOUT AMERICA

SEE ON AMI DE GRAZIA’S QUIDDITY SITE: The Amazons Choice

THE AMERICAN WAY OF GOVERNMENT
National; State, and Local, at mid-twentieth century.

A classic work reproduced here for historians and students of American history and politics.

THE WESTERN PUBLIC

POLITICALLY SPEAKING, the Western states of America compose the least known region of the nation. The Atlantic States, New England, the Midwest, and the South have fuller histories. There are eleven Western states in all: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. All of them joined the Union after 185o, during which period only seven others were admitted, including West Virginia, which was carved from Virginia during the Civil War. Most of the population, even of the older Western states, is of recent origin. About half of today's California voters have come into the state since 1932. The Western population has been expanding at a great rate, especially along the Pacific Coast. Industrial and commercial pursuits have involved an ever increasing proportion of the people. Every new census proves the heightened importance of the West to the American economy and domestic political structure. Every new incident of political turmoil in the Orient and the Pacific Basin accents the critical role of the American West in the international picture.

REPUBLIC IN CRISIS

In this first part of his two-volume introduction to political science, Professor de Grazia surveys the ideas of philosophers and political scientists through the ages - beginning with Plato and Aristotle and concluding in our own day with Dewey, Lasswell, and Burnham. This volume shows how scientists study political subjects, and explains such basic concepts as leadership, political groupings, public opinion, representation and elections, pressure groups, and coercion and violence. In the final chapters, Professor de Grazia explores the main branches of democratic thought, the nature of public policy, and personal liberty.

THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE:
       VOLUME 1: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

In this first part of his two-volume introduction to political science, Professor de Grazia surveys the ideas of philosophers and political scientists through the ages - beginning with Plato and Aristotle and concluding in our own day with Dewey, Lasswell, and Burnham. This volume shows how scientists study political subjects, and explains such basic concepts as leadership, political groupings, public opinion, representation and elections, pressure groups, and coercion and violence. In the final chapters, Professor de Grazia explores the main branches of democratic thought, the nature of public policy, and personal liberty.

THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
       VOLUME 2: POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

In this second part of his two-volume introduction to political sciencc, Professor de Grazia deals with the institutions in which man's efforts to solve the problems of community living are expressed.

Laws, constitutions, legislatures, executives, administrative agencies, and ,courts are part of what he surveys, demonstrating how the basic elements of political behavior operate within these institutions. The author then assays the effects of recent developments in political science. Here the reader comes to understand how germane the study of politics is to his own life, and to recognize the exciting possibilities in the future of this study.

This book provides a fuller understanding of the practical working of politics and, together with Volume 1: Political Behavior which deals with political theory, offers the reader a comprehensive view of the art and science of government in the two-volume Elements of Political Science.

Alfred de Grazia's two Volumes ... translated into Vietnameese ...

My aim in this book is to introduce the citizen who has had no previous training in political science to its proper elements, in their most useful order, and with appropriate emphasis. The book is designed to be a first glimpse of a field of vast importance and universal interest, a glimpse, it is hoped, that will stimulate a general interest in the ever fresh problems of political science.

THE APPLIED SCIENCE OF EQUALITY

Apportionment is how people are grouped to elected legislators. When in equal groups or otherwise grouped, different behaviors follow and different laws. Conservative, egalitarian, and mixed formulas abound. The formula of "one-man-one vote" or equi-populous districts is now constitutional law (since 1962) but is far from producing its intended effects of democratization and equalization of the power of the individual voter. The applied science of apportionment, that is, is generally misunderstood and erroneously applied.

PUBLIC & REPUBLIC

This famous history of American ideas of political representation and their predecessors was first written as a doctoral dissertation in 1947, then published by Alfred Knopf in 1950, and chosen later on as one of the few political science books in the new White House Library. It ranks as the top treatise on the subject, which, though central to all forms of government, private and public, has been in general narrowly and legalistically treated.

OPERATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Most of this collection of articles was written by me in the period between 1956 and 1965, and was published in the magazine Political Research: Organization and Design (P.R.O.D.), which was renamed later The American Behavioral Scientist, so as to recognize its broader scope. They were gathered together in 1970 and used in the teaching of his courses in social invention, political psychology, and political and cultural behavior. The articles are in some cases finished and polished, in other cases inspired notes. With the advent of computer word processing came the possibility of publishing them on a floppy disk, then on a CD-Rom. Too, they could be published on the internet, and, here now, four years after the inauguration of the site <www.grazian-archive.com> they are made available on the web. The date, May 20, 2001, marks also the 28th year from the Author's first computerized information retrieval system, possibly the first in the social sciences, an article about which is included in this collection.

Several pieces named in the Table of Contents have been held back as temporarily lost in all or part during the early confusion of computing and programming, but will be put in place upon recovery. The work as it stands contains 989,886 bytes.

A NEW SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT ELECTION CRISIS !

A NEW SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT ELECTION CRISIS !

SUPPORTING ART AND CULTURE: 1001 Questions on Culture Policy.

A Report to the National Foundation for the Arts, systematically prodding future art and literature conferences, and congressional committees on all aesthetic, social and political issues to be considered in arriving at a rational national policy for the support of the arts. Applicable to many fields.

POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE

INSTRUCTION MANUAL for Politics for Better or Worse

A uniquely realistic, sardonic run-down of the basic principles, propositions, and policy applications of political science.Carries numerous cartoons to reinforce the text, which reflects the theory of the Chicago School of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, C.E. Merriam, Harold Lasswell, Harold Gosnell, T.V.Smith, L.D.White, V.O.Key. Nathan Leites, Sebastian de Grazia, Herbert Simon, Louis Wirth, William Ogburn, et al., and the European Pareto - Mosca - Max Weber - Michels connection.

LECTURES TO THE CHINESE ABOUT AMERICA

These are lectures to the Chinese. They are built around two favorite Chinese ideas: the idea of contradictions (from yin and yang to Mao Tse-tung); and the idea of numbered slogans of things to be sought after or avoided. The contradictory scheme of the eight bads and the eight goods emerged. The Chinese classics, written before the First Empire of 221 B.C., replace the Western philosophers as sources of illumination. Many Chinese have read them, but I wonder whether the Chinese will ever hear the lectures. It doesn't matter. They were really written to be read and for Americans as well as Chinese.

SEE ON AMI DE GRAZIA’S QUIDDITY SITE: The Amazons Choice

Amazon’s Choice:
A superior writer describes her pioneering venture into the dreaded institutional world and experience of total mastectomy.

Education & Philosophy

BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE NEW WORLD

In 1968 Alfred de Grazia completed his work on World Government, the book titled "Kalos: What is to be Done with Our World.." In the same year he had gone to Vietnam as a ranking consultant on research to the Department of Defense with the task of applying the methods of the social sciences to finding the least terrible resolution of the war going on there. He resigned in frustration and turned his attention to ideas of new education for world citizenship that had long occupied his mind. Several of his former students appealed to him to attempt a new university. He had found what seemed a likely spot to engage in a critical experiment in higher education, at the Canton of Valais in Switzerland, where Belgian friends from Naxos, who were real estate developers, had begun work on a ski resort.

In 1970 he visited the area of Sion and upon returning to the United States, taking the sense of his young educational rebels, decided, against all odds, to plunge ahead. The Bulletin that follows was composed by him, and in view of what followed, as with many another Constitution, was more utopian than real. The experiment that was intended to go on forever expired in 1972. But it had taught many a lesson, and had affected the minds and spirits of several hundred participants and thousands of Valaisans lastingly. Its cost was negligible, no more than the cost of keeping a couple of convicts in prison for a year or half the size of a grant then made by the Ford Foundation to prepare a report on what was needed in higher education. It could be said of the adventure, using an ironic medical expression: "The operation was a success, but the patient died."

The Bulletin is presented here as one of the more significant applied philosophical documents to come out of that exceedingly stressful and largely futile period of American and European revolt in education.

Poetry, Novels, Aesthetics

KID OBEY'S ROBE (A Short Story)

15 PLAYS FOR 2002

RONALD'S NORM

BLACKOUT

PASSAGE OF THE YEAR

TWENTIETH CENTURY FIRE SALE

STOCKHOLMCOMING, 2000

AMI’S TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE AND JACQUES BREL

AMI’S SHORT STORY 'BLOOD'

15 PLAYS FOR 2002

These fifteen plays are published here for the first time. One of them represents an unpublished drama of fifty years ago, but fourteen were conceived and written during the past two years. The only people who have read them all are my author-wife, Anne-Marie, and my grandson and film-maker, Nick Vanderpool. Others have read one or several of them. If all goes well, they will constitute most of the repertoire for the 2002 season of a theatrical troupe touring America and Europe.

RONALD'S NORM

Ronald’s Norm was written by Alfred de Grazia in the early 1970's. It is published here on the Web for the first time. It is set in Greenwich Village and follows the career of a young man convinced that the way to the Great American Novel is by the employment of the largest number of clichés, because the great people has honed them to perfection and knows them all. Ron is the eternal aspiring author on the margins of formal education and the job market. He inveigles a psychology professor Merck into reading his chapters, and Meerck confides them to his mistress, Muriel, a pretty and plucky woman who argues with Merck that Ron’s work is good. Ron falls in love with her, and loses interest in completing his work, but Merck is convinced now of the value of the novel and decides to finish it himself. Moreover he writes an article on the subject of universals in language. Ron is implicated but exonerated in the murder of his boss who has been running a company that separated people who did not want to preserve an association. He discovers that everybody he meets has in mind writing a novel. Plots abound. Ron’ boss was killed, for dissociating people forcibly. Merck, who is sexually AC-DC cannot make headway with Ron but has his good moments with others, and gets over his anger at Muriel’s falling for Ron. Ron and Muriel start up an opposite service company to bring people together. Merck happily collaborates. All ends rather pleasantly.

BLACKOUT

'Blackout' is a novel about a black Professor's imagined experiences and the conduct of New Yorkers in a crisis. The principal character resembles somewhat the film director and writer, his friend, Mel Van Peebles; the two men had produced a couple of documentaries together, but were out of touch at the time.

Alfred de Grazia wrote the novel in the month following the amazing mass experience in November 1965 of a total blackout of electricity in New York City. He made his way from his office into the streets, visited several of his haunts, like the Cedar Tavern, and returned to his pied à terre at Fifth Avenue and Washington Square. He slept briefly, aroused himself, and was plotting his novel when the lights came on, first entitling the book "Twelve Hours by Candle." He walked out onto the streets with the dawn.

The manuscript was put aside for thirty-five years until its present publication on the Web.

PASSAGE OF THE YEAR

A book of poems collected and published while the author was in Vietnam in 1967. They represent the variety of styles and rhythms, with the philosophical thrusts, pragmatic and phenomenological, that typically characterize his prose work. Some poems are as simple as mud pies, others as abstract as medieval scholastics.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FIRE SALE

A collection of 119 poems, poetry that is a concentration upon profound hypothesis, most in free verse, with sections on ecology, sociograms, places, intimacies, identity, violence, death, gods and the wickedly uncontrollable world.

STOCKHOLMCOMING, 2000

In the summer of 1998, at Naxos, Alfred de Grazia discussed plans for the forthcoming Millennium festival of Stockholm with Swedish friends involved in staging the spectacle. Late in 1998, he decided to submit to the Organizing Committee a scheme for the Festival that would stress the world connections of Sweden and the transition of the Swedes from a medieval people to a post-modern people. The proposal for what he called a Mass Thing, a Happening, was sent in at the beginning of 1999. It is published for the first time here on the Web. More modest ideas, however, prevailed, that Walt Disney would better appreciate.

AMI’S TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE
       AND JACQUES BREL

Two great but vastly different poets receive beautiful and strict translation at the hands of the Franco-American novelist , Anne-Marie de Grazia.

AMI’S SHORT STORY 'BLOOD'

A harrowing tragedy of a poor family in Alsace.

Autobiography & Journals
of Alfred de Grazia

THE JOURNALS OF ALFRED DE GRAZIA

THE BABE

THE STUDENT

THE TASTE OF WAR

COSMIC HERETICS

THE END OF SPYDOM

THE 1000 Love Letters of "Jill + Al"

THE JOURNALS OF ALFRED DE GRAZIA

Two new volumes of Works, two years of notes and reflections, day by day, unabridged. After a gap of 15 years, from the third autobiographical volume, The Taste of War, and shortly after his appointment to New York University, as Director of the new Center for Applied Social Research and Professor of Social Theory in Government, De Grazia commenced a journal. It was continued for a decade in some fullness, but then largely sidetracked by the Vietnam War and a concentration upon the dozen books that marked the decade from 1968 on. The founding of a college in Switzerland and the beginning of his Naxos Island adventures also came then. Additional Volumes will follow here on the Grazian Archive in due course. They will overtake and pass over two autobiographical volumes also on line now, Cosmic Heretics and The End of Spydom. A burgeoning family life in Princeton and the many toils of avantgarde academia in Manhattan are the leitmotifs of the new works here published for the first time.

THE BABE

Autobiography of a child of Chicago of the roaring twenties and the great depression. Politics, family, schools, gangs, churches, games, sex --all through a child's senses from birth through the fifteenth year. Hailed as an extraordinary utterly frank excursion into deep memory, anthropologically correct, yet written in the style of the Chicago Tribune of the old days.

THE STUDENT

Rare in American literature -- or any other -- an intimate account of student life, this at the University of Chicago in Robert Maynard Hutchins' hey-day. Classics, sports, music, sex, and cheap labor as they were there in the Great Depression, when it seemed that great ideas and planning could solve the world's problems. Wisconsin resorts and European travels. Research and graduate study in the social sciences. Campus radicals and conservatives.

THE TASTE OF WAR

An unexcelled account of World War II as experienced from Private to Commanding Officer in artillery, intelligence and combat propaganda units of the U.S. Army, from Maryland to the Mohave Desert and then in six campaigns in Africa, Italy, France and Germany. Highly commended by experts, "best account of Cassino" (Paul Fussell), "tough, picturesque, humane " (Stephanie Neuman of West Point and Columbia).

COSMIC HERETICS

A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1963 to 1983. A journal, treatise on the sociology of science, and the story behind the Velikovsky Affair, in the intellectual fabric of Princeton and London, authoritative, informative and written in an original style.

THE END OF SPYDOM

Fall of Spydom: earlier entitled "The Venus Spy-Trap," . A full and true account of the arrest, indictment, investigation and trial for espionage of a Swiss computer expert and afficionado of quantavolution -- particularly with regard to the catastrophes involving planet Venus. A cosmopolitan setting, centering in Basle. A seemingly serious case treated with high irony and amusing at the conduct of practically everyone involved, including the author.

THE 1000 Love Letters of "Jill + Al"

The correspondence of Jill Oppenheim de Grazia and Alfred de Grazia, first lovers and then married, conducted between February 1942 and September 1945, has been almost entirely preserved and constitutes some 1200 letters and 775,000 words. The Chief Archivist at Carlisle Barracks, Pa, where personal documents relating to the Army are stored, thinks that it may be the largest extant collection of correspondence between a soldier and a person on the home front: his opinion is shared by other persons at the Hoover Library at Stanford University, the Army Historical Section in Washington, and archivists elsewhere. It may be the last of its species, too, because the revolution in tele-communications that lets the front line talk to anyone in the world, because the great airplanes of today can carry troops everywhere including home, and because so long a war, and, hopefully, perhaps a great war itself, is not foreseeable.

The Art Colony:
Mab, Brunk, Gaietto, Solomi

MAB (Licia Filingeri)

PIETRO GAIETTO

INGBERT BRUNK

CHRIS SOLOMI

MAB (Licia Filingeri)

PIETRO GAIETTO

MAB (Licia Filingeri) is already known to Grazian-Archive visitors through her masterful characterizations of the prose of Alfred de Grazia's "Forty Stases and Theses on World Government" in acrylic paintings. Details of several of Pietro's work also have found their way into the Grazian Archive. Licia and Pietro are located at Genoa, Italy. Synopses of their life and careers are carried on the Archive as well. Their productivity is large and they have gone almost without publicity and promotion beyond Genoa, where they are well known. (We must except recent Ezra Pound cycle of Pietro feted at Rapallo, a 'hoot 'n holler' down the road from Genoa.) The Grazian Archive is the first considerable exposure of their work. In time, more elaborate biographies and analyses of their art will be contained on the screens of the Art Colony. Old friends of the de Grazia's , the two artists collaborated in various endeavors of times past to stimulate interest in Primeval Sculpture. The basic volume on the subject was produced and published by Pietro, and is going to be presented as an adjunct to his contemporary productions.

INGBERT BRUNK

Ingbert Brunk works and lives in an enormous studio of the old Ursaline school planted in the medieval kastro of the Island of Naxos, Greece, not far from the peninsula of Stylida where Alfred and Ami de Grazia dwell. When in Germany, his homeland, he is usually to be discovered in the town of Hargtsheim. Ingbert's projects begin with a wandering over the beaches, mountains and quarries of Naxos in search of the most beautiful natural stones he can find. Most, but not all by any means, are of marble, in the varying patterns and colors that marbles assume. Their size may vary from a hundred centimeters to two meters in girth. Their weight may vary from 15 kilos to 150 kilos. The artist conveys them then by donkey or truck to the path below his studio and then by enlisted manpower up the steep long flight of steps to his workplace. There he contributes the further shaping and sculpturing that fashions and completes their beauty and significance.

CHRIS SOLOMI

Chris Solomi is English of Cypriote descent who spent years in Naxos and has taken up permanent quarters for his sculpture at Pikermi, a farming community near Athens, neighboring upon the estate of Joan Winant Vanderpool, friend of Alfred and Ami de Grazia and former mother-in-law of Dr. Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool, American Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and daughter of Alfred de Grazia. (By the way, she figures importantly in the War Letters of JILL AND AL ,q.v. on the Archive.)
Chris works in marble and metals. His bronze figure pictured here was carved and cast for an Australian businessman who has placed this sculpture in a garden North of Chicago, and has obtained and emplaced several other pieces of Chris elsewhere. Additional pictures of Solomi's work will be forthcoming.

Projects, Inventions,
& Progressive Publishing

THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE:
ON RETRIEVING VALUABLE CULTURAL RESOURCES

METROPOLIS 1976

THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE:
        ON RETRIEVING VALUABLE CULTURAL RESOURCES

Noticing the disintegration of the personal archives of one's deceased friends is an ordinary facet of the sadness of their passing. Of artists and scholars, of the creative class, it is said, "Their work lives on." But does it? If as much effort were put into carrying the effects of a creative mind into the future as is put into keeping it oxygenated for a few weeks longer, the American cultural heritage would be much the richer. Not that our proposition would be sharply for the one or the other. It is rather that much can be done to invent a low-cost socially beneficial system of managing intellectual estates, which would operate also to resolve the typical anxieties of creators and their intimates. The scenarios are well-known; I shall type them.

METROPOLIS 1976

The problems of older cities in America are many and grave. The establishment of new cities, in consequence, has not received much attention. Apart from a few general recommendations, including a report that urged the construction of over one hundred of them, little has been done to bring forward plans. costs, and arguments for cities of a half-million or more residents. At this moment it would appear that the bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence will suffer from a shortage of immediate events to celebrate, and it seems to this writer that the achievement of a new metropolis by 1976 would contribute substantially to this end. I have therefore set down here some notes on a research, design, and teaching program to produce the intellectual cadre for Metropolis 1976. Assuming success in these efforts, I am suggesting how a group of independent and commercial sector leaders can take over and build upon the plan.

The Living Archive

THE LIVING ARCHIVE

CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION IN REFERENCE RETREVAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES:
        ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE UNIVERSAL REFERENCE SYSTEM

THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE:
ON RETRIEVING VALUABLE CULTURAL RESOURCES

FUNERAL EULOGIES

THE LIVING ARCHIVE

Here now is all about the Grazian-Archive and where you come in and go out on it. In this Year 2000-minus-3, millions of Earth's people who are troubled and restless and eager are drawn to the vast anonymous movement known as Internet. There they can stake a claim to a domain on the World Wide Web, where they can be joined by persons cruising the Internet or targeting them.

CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION IN REFERENCE RETREVAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES:
        ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE UNIVERSAL REFERENCE SYSTEM

The computerized Universal Reference System, now independently organized, had its beginnings in the ABS bibliographic reference tools, such as the ABS Guide to Recent Publications in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and 'New Studies,' which is a regular feature of the ABS. Alfred de Grazia, founder and former editor of the ABS, is Professor of Government at New York University . This article, reviewing the URS and automated reference services in general, is excerpted from his address at the American Library Association Convention in July, 1966.

THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE:
        ON RETRIEVING VALUABLE CULTURAL RESOURCES

Noticing the disintegration of the personal archives of one's deceased friends is an ordinary facet of the sadness of their passing. Of artists and scholars, of the creative class, it is said, "Their work lives on." But does it? If as much effort were put into carrying the effects of a creative mind into the future as is put into keeping it oxygenated for a few weeks longer, the American cultural heritage would be much the richer. Not that our proposition would be sharply for the one or the other. It is rather that much can be done to invent a low-cost socially beneficial system of managing intellectual estates, which would operate also to resolve the typical anxieties of creators and their intimates. The scenarios are well-known; I shall type them.

FUNERAL EULOGIES

A funeral ode to my early and long-dear wife, Jill, written in late 1996.

Funeral Eulogies of:
Sebastian de Grazia, Carl Michael de Grazia and Earl Richard Milton

Ami de Grazia’s Quiddity

DUKE ELLINGTON BOULEVARD (in French)

Daniel, un jeune Français qui va étudier à l’Université Columbia, rejoint à New York son père américain, Jason, et sa demi-famille paternelle, qui n’est pas des plus engageantes... Son père, pour commencer, a oublié sa venue...

Daniel, a young Frenchman bound for Columbia University, the proper and gentle son of former hippies, joins up with Jason, his New York father and his normally dysfunctional American family... To begin with, his father has forgotten his arrival...

TONY AND ISHTAR:

A play

THE LAST DAYS OF VELIKOVSKY

Lecture delivered on October 19, 2001 at University of Bergamo, Italy. Conference chaired and organized by Prof. Emilio Spedicato.

ALLEN GINSBERG ET AL.

Their Struggles Against Censorship Remembered.

BLOOD

A short story by Ami de Grazia, a tragedy of family love and community misunderstanding in Alsatian France, recounted through the eyes of a little girl.

THE AMAZON CHOICE

- One woman's radical attempt to avoid breast cancer -

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Five poems translated by Ami de Grazia

JACQUES BREL

Six songs translated by Ami de Grazia

VOICI, TRADUIT EN FRANÇAIS...

... le Chapitre 13 du livre d'Alfred de Grazia 'The Taste of War'.

"HILLPEOPLE RAP BAND"

... of Chris de Grazia

A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

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A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE

Edward de Grazia, retired in 2006 as Professor of Law at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, New York, is an attorney specializing in human rights litigation, a political activist on behalf of constitutional rights, and a playwright. He was born on February 5, 1927 at Chicago, Illinois to Alfred J. de Grazia, a band and orchestra conductor and Catherine Calogera Lupo de Grazia, already the mother of two sons, Sebastian, nine years old, and Alfred Jr., seven years old.

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

INTERVIEWS

ARTICLES & BRIEFS

PLAYS