Harold Joseph Laski (Manchester, June 30, 1893 – March 24, 1950 in London) was an English political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, and served as the 1945-1946 chairman of the Labour Party. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A political theorist is someone who engages in political theory. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... Authorship redirects here. ... Lecturer is a term of academic rank. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...

After attending Manchester Grammar School and New College, Oxford, Laski became (1922-1936) a member of the executive committee of the socialist Fabian Society, and in 1936 he joined the Executive Committee of the Labour Party. Cowling describes him as a "prolific publicist and journalist." The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is an independent boys school (ages 11-18) in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. ... and of the New College College name New College of St Mary Latin name Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister college Kings College, Cambridge Warden Prof. ... The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. ...

In 1926 he was appointed professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. One of his more famous books is Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (which was dedicated to Edward R. Murrow). He was active on the American university lecture circuit. His 19 year friendship with Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, begun when he was 23 and Holmes was 75, is reflected in two volumes of correspondence, published in 1953. Mascot Beaver Affiliations University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Golden Triangle Website http://www. ... April 8, 1956: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow talking to reporters during a stop in Wiesbaden, Germany. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries  Atlas  Politics Portal      The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym... Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ...

He had a massive impact on the politics and the formation of India, having taught a generation of future Indian leaders at the LSE. It is almost entirely due to him that the LSE has a semi-mythological status in India. He was steady in his unremitting advocacy of the independence of India. He was a revered figure to Indian students at the LSE. One Indian Prime Minister said 'there is a vacant chair at every cabinet meeting in India reserved for the ghost of Professor Harold Laski'.[1] The Indian independence movement was a series of steps taken in the Indian subcontinent for independence from British colonial rule, beginning with the Rebellion of 1857. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the Government of India. ...

Author Ayn Rand, who was no fan of Laski, based Ellsworth Toohey, the villain of her novel The Fountainhead, partly on him.^{[citation needed]} Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the novella Anthem. ... The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. ... The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. ...

His elder brother was Neville Laski. Neville Jonas Laski QC (18 December 1890-24 March 1969) was an English judge and leader of Anglo-Jewry. ...

Selected Laski bibliography

• Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, 1917
• Authority in the Modern State, 1919, ISBN 1-58477-275-1
• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham, 1920
• Karl Marx, 1921
• Communism, 1927
• Liberty in the Modern State, 1930
• Democracy in Crisis, 1933
• The American Presidency, 1940
• Reflections On the Revolution of our Time , 1943
• Faith, Reason, and Civilisation, 1944
• The American Democracy, 1948, The Viking Press
• The Rise of European Liberalism

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See also

• American Studies in Britain

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Reference

• Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler - British Politics & Policy 1933-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p.410, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

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External links

• Works by Harold Laski at Project Gutenberg
• Biography and various quotations regarding Laski
• Brief biographical sketch from the London School of Economics