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THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND HIS AMERICA —Joseph Dorfman—Viking ($3.75). In his lifetime (1857-1929) Thorstein Bunde Veblen had a few devoted disciples and a reputation as a brilliant eccentric among his fellow-sociologists, but he was not even a name to the U. S.-at-large.* When "Technocracy" flashed in its pan (1932), its brief publicity lit up Veblen's name by reflection, brought him a posthumous and garbled notoriety. But his reputation did not sputter out with Technocracy. Author Dorfman's detailed and scholarly book is the first full-length...

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