First edition

IMPACT | Essays on Ignorance and the Decline | of American 99 Civilization | by | Ezra Pound | Edited with an introduction by Noel Stock | Chicago | HENRY REGNERY COMPANY | 1960

xviii, 285 pp. 21.6 X 14.5 cm. Grey cloth boards stamped in red on front cover and on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in black and red.

Published 13 June 1960 at $5.00; 5000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: . . . Manufactured in the United States of America . . . “ | in the sort of work collected in this volume ... spent many years feeling his way through an unmapped land, gathering facts long out of print or available only in rare pamphlets or the archives of learned societies etc. For this reason I have discarded a large quantity of material and, generally speaking, have attempted to present his mature view as it was, say, in 1940.” (“Introduction,” by Noel Stock, p. xviii) Most of the extracts printed in Section II and some of the letters in Section III are at least slightly condensed.

Contents: Of Misprision of Treason (1944)—Bureaucracy the Flail of Jehovah [condensed] (1928)—A Visiting Card [John Drummond’s translation of Carta da visita —A50a—condensed and revised] (1942)—Possibilities of Civilization: What the Small Town Can Do [condensed] (1936)—Murder by Capital [condensed] (1933)—Integrity of the Word [a much condensed revision of What Is Money For?—A46]| (1939)—The Enemy is Ignorance [John Drummond’ translation of Oro e lavoro—A52a—condensed] (1944)—Mang Tsze: The Ethics of Mencius [corrected] (1938)—[Social Credit,] An Impact [Aqo, condensed and revised] (1935)—In the Wounds: Memoriam A. R. Orage [condensed] (1935)—The Jefferson—Adams Letters as a Shrine and a Monument [“The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence,” complete, with a new footnote by Ezra Pound, dated: 1959, p. 175] G1937)—America and the Second World War [John Drummond’ translation of L America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente—As 1a—condensed] (1944)—Immediate Need of Confucius [slightly revised, with a new footnote by Ezra Pound, dated: 1959, p. 200] (1937)—II. cists—SHORTER PIECES AND EXTRACTS FROM UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS: Our Contemporaries—Pastiche: The Regional, Il, VII-IX, XV—The Revolt of Intelligence, V—Credit and the Fine Arts—Definitions—The Public Convenience [from C689]—Summary of the Situation [from C689]—Prolegomena—The Arts [from C707]—Desideria— Drive Back the Government [paragraph from the end of “Bureaucracy the Flail of Jehovah”]—Peace—Open Letter to Tretyakow—Hunger Fighters—Peace Pathology—To the Historical Society of America—Private Worlds—[An American] So-called “Writers” Congress—[John Buchan’s] Cromwell—Towards Orthology—History and Ignorance—The Movement of Literature—The Individual in His Miliew—The Acid Test—Without a Distorting Lens [from C1330]—Race—Sincerity [from C1359]—On Theorists—On Military Vir100 tue—Our Own Form of Government—W, E. Woodward, Historian—When Will School Books ... 2—Reorganize Your Dead Universities—A Dull Subject [from C1461]—Marx [from C1459]—Emergency (Letter to Basil Bunting, 24 November 1938)—Text Books—Social Credit ([from] What ls Money For?— A46 [with footnote from page 136 of Pound’s translation of Odon Por’s ttalys Policy of Social Economics—A49])—The American System, Why Not Revive It?—III. Letters To america: To Senator S. S. Brookhart, 18 March 1931—To W. E. Woodward, 7 February 1934(?)—To Henry Morgenthau Jr, 7 August 1934—To Upton Sinclair, 30 January 193;—To T. C. Wilson, 28 Novernber 1936—To William Langer, December 1936—To Senator H. T. Bone, 1936 ()— To Henry Seidel Canby 14 February 1938 (?)—To Claude Bowers, 16 April 1938—To Van Wyck Brooks, 16 April 1938—To Dr. Joseph Brewer, 11 September 1939—To Ernest Minor Patterson, 6 February 1940, & 12 March 1940— To Editor of the Annals, American Academy of Social & Political Science, 3 June 1940—To D. MACPHERSON, 16 November 1940—To the Committee of Progress, National Institute of Art[s] & Letters, 1941 (?)—To National Institute of Art[s] and Letters, 15 May 1941—appenpix: Letter to Nicholas Murr[a]y’ Butler ... Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 18 June 1928, signed by Albert Mensdorff, but drafted jointly by Ezra Pound and Count Mensdorff, with reply and covering letter to Ezra Pound—SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY