ABSTRACT
Harold Laski's frustration with America resembled that of the small child whose demands are ignored by adults. Probably no one in America published in this country as many words critical of the United States as did this Englishman during Beloff's "Age of Laski." Laski's life tells us much about the 1930s, less about the 1920s and 1940s. In the bewilderment of the intellectuals during the Great Depression, Laski expressed eloquently the outrage that many felt over the apparent failure of capitalism and its apparent perversion of democracy in Germany and Italy. By the 1940s it was only Laski who was bewildered—at the failure of his diagnoses and the rejection of his prescriptions even by those who had been captivated by him the previous decade. The 1940s could scarcely be included in an "Age of Laski.".
