Mangling a Masterpiece

The Yale University Press has brought out a revised edition of Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action, first published in 1949. On the inside flap of the paper jacket the Press honors me by printing a sentence from a review I wrote of the first edition in Newsweek: “If any single book can turn the ideological tide that has been running in recent years so heavily toward statism, socialism, and totalitarianism, Human Action is that book.”

But the Press does not honor Professor Mises in this new edition. And it does not honor itself. The new edition is a typographical disgrace.

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The Yale University Press has brought out a revised edition of Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action, first published in 1949. On the inside flap of the paper jacket the Press honors me by printing a sentence from a review I wrote of the first edition in Newsweek: “If any single book can turn the ideological tide that has been running in recent years so heavily toward statism, socialism, and totalitarianism, Human Action is that book.”

But the Press does not honor Professor Mises in this new edition. And it does not honor itself. The new edition is a typographical disgrace.