Wittenberg Commentary (3 results)

Hardcover. xxxi, 331p., stamp of the Daily World Library on the end papers, soiled and worn. Tattered remnants of dust jacket laid in.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slight shelf wear and small tear to edge of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. With an Introduction by Horace M. Kallen. This is the fascinating story of one of the most significant cases in recent United States law history told by present the actual documents in the case - from the first supoena to the debates on the floor of the Senate to the final decision of the U. S. Court of Appeals vindicating Corliss Lamont. All the documents have been brought together by Philip Wittenberg; and with his connecting commentary and explanatory notes, he has compiled a highly readable account of the controversial Lamong case. 331 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CORLISS LAMONT. With an Intro' by Horace M. Kallen. Corliss Lamont, a leading humanist philosopher in the 1930s-1950s was best known as a civil libertarian, active during the McCarthy period defending working class and middle class (mostly Jewish) people, who were being victimised. In the process Lamont was cited for contempt of Congress, but in 1956 an appeals court overturned his indictment. Lamont served as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932-1954, and chairman until his death in 1995, of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Philip Wittenberg was Corliss Lamont's lawyer. With Chronology and Index to Press Comments. 331pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges, o/w Vg+. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CORLISS LAMONT. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage, particularly if shipped overseas.