[a reading/reference copy only; covers heavily edgeworn, rubbed, creased, etc., and the spine crudely tape-repaired; one-time owner's signature at top of half-title page]. Trade PB "The truth about the U.S. Occupation of Germany," by the radical journalist/editor who was awaiting his deportation hearing at the time he wrote the book. Following World War II, he "went into Germany with the first team under American command to clean up Hitler's mess in a key sector, the press. This is an account of what he and his associates did and of how their work began to be sabotaged before the end of th... View More...
[light wear to cloth at extremities and bottom edges of covers, a couple of small brown spots (tea?) on top of text block; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "for Elena and Jack Baskin / with love in San Francisco / Cedric Belfrage / Nov 1973." The author's very personal recounting of the political climate in the U.S. during the decade and a half following World War II. As a long-time lefty (and editor since 1948 of the National Guardian, the story of which he told in a later book, "Something to Guard"), he was even... View More...
[moderate shelfwear to top and bottom edges, typical with this cheaply-produced book, but generally a good sound copy; the jacket spine is slightly faded, with just a teensy bit of paper loss at top of spine and at a couple of corners]. A passionate memoir by blacklisted journalist/editor/novelist (and one-time film critic) Belfrage, written during the three months he spent in jail in New York awaiting his eventual deportation, in which he expresses both his admiration for America and Americans -- but also "his detestation of that small group of Americans who seek to panic their countrymen int... View More...
(no dust jacket) [soiling to top edge, but otherwise a good solid copy, slight fraying to cloth at spine ends]. Of several autobiographical works turned out by this critic-journalist-social activist, this comes the closest to a traditional memoir -- and is also the most explicit about how he, "the third son of an English gentleman," managed to somehow acquire a social conscience despite a privileged upbringing. He "tells, in terms of his personal life and in a rich satiric vein, how he finally made good his freedom from the samurai snobberies of his class, from the inequalities o... View More...
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