Education by Uncles
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 8vo. Illustrated by Pauline Bynes. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. A fine, well-preserved copy. Item #410175
First edition, first printing. The dedication copy, inscribed "Love Abigail Homans" on the half-title beneath the ownership inscription of George Casper Homans dated August 1966. The printed dedication reads "To my son / George Caspar Homans." The author's uncles were Henry and Brooks Adams and "she grew up in the Victorian monstrosity built by her father, not far from the Old House in Quincy in which her great-great-grandfather John Adams had lived, as well as his son, the sixth President, John Quincy Adams; Mrs. Homan's grandfather, Charles Francis Adams, Lincoln's minister to England; her father, John Quincy Adams and his famous brothers, Henry and Brooks" (jacket).
George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory.
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