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SWANBERG, W.A. First Blood. the Story of Fort Sumter.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 Hard Cover Good+
373 pages, 8 plates, map, cloth, back-strip sun-faded else very good. Story of the opening skirmish of the Civil War. From the publisher: "Summer started the greatest war this land ever knew. It had far more causative significance than Pearl Harbor. It was not a point selected for surprise attack. It represented the North-South quarrel in miniature, and the crisis sizzled there for months, gradually gaining intensity until the explosion came. ' Here, in Mr. Swanberg's words, are the chief reasons for his book, and for the care with which he has explored his subject. He tells the story of one of the truly extraordinary episodes in American military history, a half year of mounting tension that broke into actual war with the surrender of the fort. " ; 373 pages
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SWANBERG, W.A. First Blood. the Story of Fort Sumter.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 Hard Cover Very Good in Good dust jacket
X, 373 pages, 8 plates, map, plan, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "Summer started the greatest war this land ever knew. It had far more causative significance than Pearl Harbor. It was not a point selected for surprise attack. It represented the North-South quarrel in miniature, and the crisis sizzled there for months, gradually gaining intensity until the explosion came. ' Here, in Mr. Swanberg's words, are the chief reasons for his book, and for the care with which he has explored his subject. He tells the story of one of the truly extraordinary episodes in American military history, a half year of mounting tension that broke into actual war with the surrender of the fort. " ; 373 pages
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SWANBERG, W.A. Luce and his empire.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 Hard Cover
529 pages, 16 plates, cloth, dust jacket, very good. Biography of the famous journalist Henry Robinson Luce. Much of this account is devoted to the WWII period. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 'Henry Robinson Luce, (1898-1967), American publisher, b. Tengchow, China, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. After studying at Yale Univ. and Oxford, he worked (1921–22) as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News and the Baltimore News. In 1923, with Briton Hadden, he founded Time, a weekly news magazine that featured capsulated news accounts written in a brisk, adjective-laden style. After Hadden’s death (1929), Luce became editor in chief (1929–64) of Time Inc. (now Time Warner) and subsequently founded Fortune (1930), a business monthly; Life (1936), a pictorial news magazine; and Sports Illustrated (1954). Through control of these magazines and a book division, Luce was generally considered the most influential magazine publisher in the United States since S. S. McClure, and also one of the most controversial. His critics maintained that Time reflected his personal leanings—Republicanism, anticommunism, and internationalism. He believed that objective reporting was impossible and encouraged his editors to express his own views in their articles, which were unsigned. Luce and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, were influential in national politics.'
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SWANBERG, W.A. Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1976 0684147688 / 9780684147680 Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
xii,528 pages, 17 plates, cloth, dj, very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Norman Mattoon Thomas, 1884-1968, American socialist leader, b. Marion, Ohio; grad. Princeton (1905), Union Theological Seminary (1911). He served as pastor of several Presbyterian churches and did settlement work in New York City until 1918. (He formally left the ministry in 1931.) In World War I, he became a pacifist and joined (1918) the Socialist party. He founded (1918) The World Tomorrow, was (1921-22) an associate editor of the Nation, and became (1922) codirector of the League for Industrial Democracy. He was also active in setting up the American Civil Liberties Union. Thomas unsuccessfully sought election as governor of New York (1924, 1938) and as mayor of New York City (1925, 1929). After the death (1926) of Eugene Debs, he assumed leadership of the Socialist party and was repeatedly (1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948) the party's candidate for president. He polled his highest vote, about 880,000, in 1932. An advocate of evolutionary socialism, Thomas was a constant critic of the American economic system and of both major parties; he strongly opposed American entry in World War II while bitterly denouncing both fascism and Soviet communism. After the war, he lectured and wrote extensively on the need for world disarmament and the easing of cold war tensions. In 1955, he resigned his official posts in the Socialist party, but he remained its chief spokesman until shortly before his death. His works include The Conscientious Objector in America (1923), Socialism of Our Time (1929), Human Exploitation (1934), Appeal to the Nations (1947), Socialist's Faith (1951), The Test of Freedom (1954), The Prerequisite for Peace (1959), Great Dissenters (1961), and Socialism Reexamined (1963).
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