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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society. Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called unsparing honesty, and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything against the values they shared.

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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 18981945

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel Prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society. Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called unsparing honesty; and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything against the values they shared.

Walter Anderson Jackson III (19502015) is best known for Gunnar Myrdal and Americas Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 19381973 (1990), which analyzes the making of Myrdals An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) in relation to early twentieth-century Swedish and American social thought. Jackson grew up in the South during the Civil Rights Movement and earned a BA (mcl) from Duke and a PhD from Harvard. His lifes work was prompted by questions about racial inequality in the United States and the perspective a European social democratic thinker brought to this fraught issue. Jackson published numerous articles on white racial liberalism, African American sociologists and anthropologists, and theories of interracial relations. Beloved by students and the public for grounding the civil rights struggle in local history and highlighting the voices and viewpoints of participants, he appeared on the 2015 PBS program, American Denial.

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On the night of February 20, 1950, Gunnar Myrdal sat at his desk in Geneva and wept. He had just received word of the death of his closest friend from secondary school and university, the chemist and novelist Fritz Thorn, with whom he had had little contact during the previous decade. This shock led him to reflect on his early life in a handwritten letter to his wife, Alva Myrdal, who was living in New York. At 51, Gunnar directed the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, charged with rebuilding the European economy and encouraging trade between the Soviet bloc and the West. Alva headed the United Nations Department of Social Affairs, which addressed the needs of children and women living in poverty amidst the aftermath of war. Together they had contributed important ideas to the formation of the Swedish welfare state in the 1930s. Now, as Gunnar and Alva pursued careers on different continents, their relationship had taken a new turn. Without Alva at his side and with the future of their marriage unclear, Gunnar felt peculiarly alone as he picked up the pen to capture the emotions he felt. (G to A, Feb. 20, 1950)

To Gunnar, the death of his old friend symbolized the loss of his own youth, and he sensed that a very deep-rooted part of himself had been severed and was now decaying.

A personality is constructed like a shell, like a suit of armor, and one manages ever greater things. But inside one remains frozen and sad. I am crying tonight for the first time in many years.... I had forgotten so much! If I had the time, I would like to shut myself away for a week and think about... myself. It is such a macabre pleasure to brood on ones youth. What has gone wrong and what turned out right.

Suddenly terrified of being alone with these powerful memories, he blurted out: Alva, I am so lonely here.... Alva, dearest, you wont abandon me, will you?

Why was it such a macabre pleasure to brood about his youth? What memories had he repressed in his rise from his parents cottage in the rural province of Dalarna to his position of worldwide prominence? Why does a man describe his personality as a suit of armor inside of which he remains frozen? What hidden side of his divided self had Fritz seen that no one else but Alva had glimpsed?

As Gunnar contemplated these vivid images from his youth, his early life seemed cut off from the professional and public persona he had fashioned as a young economist in the 1920s, an economic advisor to Swedens Social Democratic government in the 1930s, an internationally known expert on race relations and racism in the early 1940s, Swedens Minister of Trade in 19451946, and then director of a major UN commission during the early years of the Cold War. I would like to write my memoirs, he told Alva, but not about his public activities. Instead, he was focused on the images of the past that continually pop up about the boy with a hip injury, and the girls, and the books and the dream of being a lawyer, handwriting, Father [underlined three times], Elsa [his sister], Stockholm,... the cold streets, yes... everything that is important and small and frightening.

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