Re: [OPE-L] W J Blake clarification requested

[Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>]

> saying Blake was a journalist. I was a bit confused reading this

> since this is not what it said/says in his books introduction.

> Are we talking at cross purposes. I referred to William J Blake

> who in 1939 published the 'Elements..' used in the email title.

> But he was a stock exchange 'worker'(!) and banker, not as you

> say in the email a journalist! 

 

Paul B:

 

On the title page below his name, there is the following:

 

"Formerly Managing Director, London Scottish Banking Corporation;

Investment Director Grain Union, S.A. (Antwerp); Associate Editor

Magazine of Wall Street"

 

An "Associate Editor" (in the "Preface", he wrote that he was a

"financial editor") of a magazine might be loosely thought of

as being a "journalist", right?  It's certainly likely that in that capacity

he wrote occasional articles and reported on current events and

meetings for that magazine.

 

> You say you have 2 MSS from  a  'Blake'... is it not possible to publish

> these ?

 

I don't know about that, but the title(s) of the book is/are curious. 

I.e. the title page says that it is _Elements of Marxian Economic Theory

and its Criticism_ whereas the _cover_ of the book lists the title as

_An American Looks at Karl Marx_.  Presumably the former was the

official title and the one preferred by the author and the latter was

selected by the publisher (Cordon Company)?

 

In solidarity, Jerry