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in 1932, the Great Depression had swept the country and Weaver, like many others, had evolved into a full-fledged Socialist.

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

In an autobiographical essay called “Up From Liberalism” (1958), Weaver recalls that in his undergraduate years at the University of Kentucky earnest professors had him “persuaded entirely that the future was with science, liberalism, and equalitarianism.”