Citizens Choice

by Ernest Barker

1937. No Edition Stated. 185 pages. Yellow dust jacket with brown lettering over blue cloth. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners, with tanning to spine and edges. Notable soiling to DJ.

185 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Sir Ernest Barker FBA (1874 - 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.

Barker was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a don at Oxford and spent a brief time at the London School of Economics. He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927, and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge in 1928, being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958. There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.