The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. 3 black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 392 pages.
Marx's first book. A fascinating study of the tension between the traditional view of America as a rural paradise and the view of America as an urban, industrialized nation that is the envy of the world. Marx examines the works of America's most gifted writers who dwelt on this contradiction between rural myth and technological fact. Thoreau, for one, warning of a system in which men would become the tools of their tools.
Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with leaf pattern to upper board. Spine titled in dark green. A few minor extremity bumps. Jacket spine is slightly sun-faded. Binding and hinges sound. Minimal wear overall.
Item #2000
Price: $300