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An American Dilemma

by Gunnar Myrdal

Anisfield-Wolf Book · 1945 · Winner
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NonfictionISBN 9780394730424

Award History

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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction1945Winner

About the Author

Gunnar MyrdalSwedish

Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist best known for his seminal works An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944), which influenced the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, and Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968). Read more →

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