vntg 1964 Robert Conquest PB 1st A WORLD OF and 50 similar items

Stated First Ballantine Edition. Confirmed as First American/First Paperback by ISFDB. Published in UK in 1955. Tight, clean, flat, square book with rubbed tips and edges. Owner's marks on the inside front cover. Toned pages. In the free world of the future, many people are uneasy about the government's psychological power to control, even benevolently, its citizens' upbringing. Four friends, an artist, a scientist, an administrator, and an amorist, each find their own novel and surprising solutions to the problem of how to retain independence of mind and action in a world where conformity has reached way out beyond just one planet... George Robert Ackworth Conquest was a British historian who became a well known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication, in 1968, of his account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror.