Since Yesterday: The Nineteen-Thirties in America, September 3, 1929 - September 3, 1939

Allen, Frederick Lewis

Verlag: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940

Beschreibung

Thick octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt; spine faded, slight soiling. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Philip and Lois Jessup, Frederick Lewis Allen, April 5, 1952 - several yesterdays later!," on the front endpaper. ---- Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup worked tirelessly for the American Friends Service Committee, the U. S. Children's Bureau preparing reports on children in Europe during Second World War, and the United Nations, advocating for women's rights around the world. Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U. S. diplomat, credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. The great popular historian Allen chronicled the evolution of United Nations and other Jessup-influenced events in his "The Big Change: America's Transformation 1900-1950." An important work with a stellar provenance. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-16550926244

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Since Yesterday: The Nineteen-Thirties in ...

Verlag: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 1940

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)