New York, Scribner's (1957). Book club edition. F/G+. Book is clean, tight and straight. Dustjacket is chipped and edgeworn with small closed tears. Mylar cover. Civil War. War Between the States.ZB90

First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter

History

SWANBERG, W.A.

Americas

Plume

Pulitzer

Simon Schuster Trade

Examines the life and impact of the American editor and writer, emphasizing his political and philosophical theories and his role in breaking down the wall of literary censorship.

Dreiser

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities.

Norman Thomas, the last idealist

Charles Scribners' Sons

The making of the fortune of William Collins Whitney and the social consciousness of his daughter, Dorothy, are examined in a saga of love, money, politics, corruption, ambition, and untimely death

Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of America's Richest Families

Scribner

An exhaustive profile of the nation's most powerful newspaper mogul explores the life and times of William Randolph Hearst, his turbulent and flamboyant personal life, his controversial style of journalism, and the growth of his publishing empire.

Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst

Professionals & Academics

Bbs Pub Corp

First Blood (The Story of Fort Sumter)

Charles Scribner`s Sons

Sickles the Incredible: A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles

Butternut & Blue

A Biography of General Daniel Edgar Sickles

It began quietly enough one morning in February 1880, with a mutton-chopped Acme Safe Company salesman knocking on the door of Reverend Morgan Dix, the starchiest clergyman in Manhattan's most respectable church. The salesman was surely misdirected, Reverend Dix explained—he had no need for a safe, and he had not made an appointment. But soon after, used clothes dealers arrived, followed by heavy machinery salesmen, and soon the street filled riotously with wave after wave of solicitor-tormentors—hundreds of funeral directors, horse traders, wigmakers, fellow clergymen, doctors—all insisting they'd been summoned by the bewildered Reverend Dix. And for weeks, it continued in this manner. Reporters from every newspaper in New York camped out to watch the fun, and as the story gained national attention, police and postal officers raced to capture the gleeful prankster-cum-performance artist who was making a mockery of the esteemed Trinity Church. A fascinating tale of detection and revenge, The Rector and the Rogue uncovers for the first time the trail of celebrated Victorian trickster "Gentleman Joe"—the mysterious con-man whose innumerable identities, wild fabrications, baffling motives, and international trail of chaos would lead to one of the most bizarre criminal cases of the 19th century.

The Rector and the Rogue: Being the true and incredible account of a dastardly hoax against an upright (if rather stuffy) divine. It turned New York upside down.

McSweeney's, Irregulars

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First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter

Pulitzer

Dreiser

Norman Thomas, the last idealist

Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of America's Richest Families

Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst

First Blood (The Story of Fort Sumter)

Sickles the Incredible: A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles

Sickles the Incredible: A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles

The Rector and the Rogue: Being the true and incredible account of a dastardly hoax against an upright (if rather stuffy) divine. It turned New York upside down.