Chip Shoulder, Signed (6 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author "To ____ and ___. Who have been such good friends to us and our Chip. Tom Stokes". No other markings. Cover a little soiled - pages a little yellowed. Clean and tight. Nice copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by the author, a presentation copy inscribed to journalist Ray Scherer. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 561 pages, index, DJ soiled and worn, DJ edges worn and chipped, former owners's name inside front endpaper. Signed by the author. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, Jr. (November 1, 1898 - May 14, 1958) was a Pulitizer-prize winning American journalist. Thomas Stokes was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 1, 1898, to Thomas Stokes and Emma Layton, both descendants of colonial families. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1920 afters 3 years. He began his journalism career working as a reporter for Georgia newspapers and then moved to Washington in 1921, where he took dictation from reporters atUnited Press. He later worked as a copy editor and then as a reporter covering all aspects of Washington politics. He greeted the New Deal with enthusiasm and his coverage of the early days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's's administration brought him to the attention of theScripps-Howard newspaper chain, which hired him as its Washington correspondent in 1933. In 1937, the Amalgamated Clothing Woekers of America reprinted a series of his articles under the title Carpetbaggers of Industry to indict businesses that relocated to the South in search of lower-earning workers.His coverage of FDR's administration grew more critical over time. He won the Pulitizer Prize in 1939 for investigating how Kentucky politicians had corrupted the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to advance their own careers. He concluded the Kentucky WPA was "a grand political racket in which the taxpayer is the victim." Stokes and WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins traded charges for several days. The affair led indirectly to the passage of the Hatch Act. He authored an autobiography, Chip Off My Shoulder, in 1940.] A reviewer described him: "He is irreverent but not flip, ironic but not bitter, a hater of pretense and arrogance but not of people. Some of his 1941 reporting on the awarding of construction contracts provoked a contentious debate in the U.S. Senate. Stokes became a columnist for United Features Syndicate in December 1944. More than 100 newspapers ran his column. In 1947 he won the Raymond Clapper Award for general excellence in Washington reporting and crusading. He was honored again by the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association just before his death.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A very clean, bright and attractive copy . Inscribed by the author on the ffep. A few minor chips at the corners. Near Fine / Near Fine.