This Island Now (The B.B.C. Reith Lecture 1962.) (Signed)

Hogarth Press, 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Inscribed by G.M. Carstairs to Agnes Meyer on front end page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 102 pages, 22 cm. <br> George Morrison Carstairs was a British anthropologist, professor, and psychiatrist. He was the President of the World Mental Health Organization (1968-1972). <br> "Agnes Ernst Meyer, the daughter of German immigrants who became an influential journalist, philanthropist, and education activist, was born and educated in New York City. She attended Barnard College over her father's objections and paid for her education herself by piecing together scholarships and wages from odd jobs. After her 1907 graduation, Meyer became one of the first women reporters hired by the New York Sun. A year later, she resumed her literary studies at the Sorbonne where she became friends with Gertrude Stein and Edward Steichen. She returned to New York in 1909 and married the multimillionaire financier Eugene Meyer and raised five children, one of whom, Katherine Meyer Graham, would make historic decisions as editor and publisher of The Washington Post. In 1917, the Meyers moved to Washington, D.C., where for the next sixteen years Eugene held a series of influential financial positions within the federal government. When the Hoover administration ended in 1933, Eugene Meyer then purchased the struggling Washington Post to which Agnes Meyer frequently contributed articles criticizing the Works Progress Administration and other New Deal Programs. World War II, however, radicalized Meyer's politics as she traveled Britain and the United States to investigate home front conditions and was stunned by the failure of government to meet its citizens' basic needs." - Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green