{"product_id":"alva-and-gunnar-myrdal-in-sweden-and-america-1898-1945-unsparing-honesty-paperback","title":"Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945: Unsparing Honesty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter a. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society. Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called \"unsparing honesty,\" and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything against the values they shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Anderson Jackson III (1950-2015) is best known for \u003ci\u003eGunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism,1938-1973 \u003c\/i\u003e(1990), which analyzes the making of Myrdal's \u003ci\u003eAn American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy \u003c\/i\u003e(1944) in relation to early twentieth-century Swedish and American social thought. Jackson grew up in the South during the Civil Rights Movement and earned a BA (mcl) from Duke and a PhD from Harvard. His life's work was prompted by questions about racial inequality in the United States and the perspective a European social democratic thinker brought to this fraught issue. Jackson published numerous articles on white racial liberalism, African American sociologists and anthropologists, and theories of interracial relations. Beloved by students and the public for grounding the civil rights struggle in local history and highlighting the voices and viewpoints of participants, he appeared on the 2015 PBS program, \"American Denial.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42171606761607,"sku":"9780367497088","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b0349ddb4228ea2bd14ce9795e47b9ec.webp?v=1733356993","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/alva-and-gunnar-myrdal-in-sweden-and-america-1898-1945-unsparing-honesty-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}