Indexed works
Works about or by Gunnar Myrdal. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987
Jackson, Walter A. · 1990 · University of North Carolina Press
Walter A. Jackson traces the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and the making of 'An American Dilemma', covering social engineering and racial liberalism from 1938 to 1987. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1990, xxi and 447 pages with portraits. A note records scattered references to Howard Odum, William Terry Couch and others at the university, which is where the Chapel Hill connection lies.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987 American dilemma.
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