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Adams, Charles Francis. Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography. With a Memorial Address Delivered November 17, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1916. First Edition, First Printing.
Large octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge gilt, stamped decoration to upper cover, uncut, lx, 224 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear and foxing (age darkening) and slight fading to spine. Contents: Memorial Address, by Henry Cabot Lodge; Autobiography, by Charles Francis Adams: Youth and Education; Law and Politics; Washingtonj, 1861; War and Army Life; Public Service and History; Index.
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Bacon, Rev. William F. A Sermon, In Memoriam of Rev. John Kimball Young, D. D., For Thirty-Five Years Pastor of the Congregational Church, Laconia, N. H., Delivered by Rev. William F. Bacon, July 11, 1875.
Laconia, NH: Democrat Office, 1875.
12mo, string-bound (printed wrappers), 23 pp. Tear along spine; otherwise,Very Good+, with light sunning to edges.
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Baldwin, Neil. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate.
New York: Public Affairs, 2001. Stated First Edition.
Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), uncut, 416 pp. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: A visitor to Nazi Party Headquarters in Munich in the winter of 1922 would have immediately observed a large table covered with copies of the German edition of The International Jew by Henry Ford, and a framed photograph of the industrialist-author hanging on Adolf Hitler's office wall...Biographer Neil Baldwin reveals the complex tale of how Heinrich Ford promoted a virulent brand of antisemitism, disseminating his point of view through a privately-published newspaper, The Dearborn Independent -- and how the Jewish American community responded with alarm and courage...
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Cater, Harold Dean. Henry Adams and His Friends: A Collection of His Unpublished Letters. Compiled, with a Biographical Introduction, by Harold Dean Cater.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1947. First Edition.
Octovo, green cloth, brown labels, gilt letters, 797 pp. Very Good+ in a chipped dust jacket. ÔThis new collection of Henry Adams letters throws fresh light on the man. Here is the well-known Adams brusqueness and eccentricity, and here also is his litt-known warmth and tenderness. This is the most complete picture yet presented of Henry Adams. He emerges as a scholar, teacher, writer, and warm-hearted dilettante. There are about 650 letters in this collection, written to a hundred different people, and they date from 1858 to 1918...An important introduction brings out many significant details of Adams's life...it also offerrs a much needed interpretation of his autobiography. The book resents a picture of sixty years of American and world history with pungent and spicy comments on life in Boston, Washington, and the capitals of Europe, with a shrewd appraisal of many important public figures...'
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Chittenden, L. E. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890. Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the War.
New York: Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1893.
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, ix, 434 pp. Near-Fine, with very slight rubbing along edges. A Sampling of Contents: The Earliest Free Soil Organization -- The Origin of the Republican Party; The Van Burens -- The New York Barn-Burners; The Early Bench and Bar of Vermont; A Lesson in Banking; The Third House Journal -- How We Reformed Legislation in 1850; Wooden Side Judges of the County Courts; The Vermont Floodwood or Right Arm of her Defence; Secretary Chase and His Financial Policy; Judge Lynch -- An Incident of Early Pacific Railroad Travel; The Story of Mitchell Sabattis; The Death of Lincoln; some Men Whom I Knew In Washington duuring the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln: A Study.
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Cote, Richard N. Theodosia Burr Alston, Portrait of a Prodigy.
Mount Pleasant, SC: Corinthian Books, (2002). First Edition, First Printing.
Signed & Inscribed by Author. Octavo, navy blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 400 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: From her birth into Aaron Burr's illustrious New York family in 1783; her childhood amidst the leaders and the high society of the new nation; her marriage to Joseph Alston, a Georgetown, South Carolina slave-owning aristocrat; her voyage down the Ohio River to become the Empress of Mexico; and to her tragic and mysterious disappearance at sea in the first days of 1813, this is the true story of Theodosia Burr Alston's amazing life.
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Douglas, William O. Go East, Young Man: The Early Years. The Autobiography of William O. Douglas.
New York: Random House, (1974). First Edition, Stated.
Signed by William O. Douglas. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv + 493 pp.Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with slight age darkening. Illustrated. From dust jacket: A uniquely American and uniquely personal document, Go East, Young Man is Justice William O. Douglas' own story of his life, from his boyhood to his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939. Filled with anecdotes and warm recollections of the people he has known -- both the famous and the plain citizens...Justice Douglas tells what it was like for him to grow up in Yakima, Washington, fatherless and poor, and having to overcome a childhood bout with polio. He tells how he learned from his earliest years to identify with the underprivileged and to distrust people of wealth and position. He writes of his love of the land, of riding the rods, of getting to know the hobos, workers, minorities, and native American radicals. And the reader sees how these early experiences were the basis for what developed into a unique and now famous political and judicial philosophy. This book describes William Douglas' friendship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his intimates in the New Deal. It tells of the card games and intricate political relationships, providing a vivid, behind-the-scenes picture of Washington politics and a memorable view of one of the most exciting times in recent American history....
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Dykeman, Wilma and James Stokely. Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander.
New York: The Norton Library, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962.
Octavo, softbound, xvi, 343 pp. Very Good+, with remainder mark (black inked mark to the lower edge of pages). Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was one of the greatest white champions of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty, which he saw around him. In 1919 Will Alexander helped establish the Commission on Interracial Co-operation in Atlanta...
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