Declaration Conscience, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Margaret Chase Smith is a legend in Maine politics and 'A Woman of Firsts.' She made her name speaking up against Sen. Joe McCarthy and 'McCarthyism.' Her Declaration of Conscience (same as title) woke up the nation. She was the first woman to serve in both the U.S House and U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to have her name placed into nomination for president by a major party. Sen Smith has inscribed the North Bridgton Library book as a gift to the library. A rare collector's item for this amazing woman. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: NVG+. Dust Jacket Condition: NVG. 1st Edition. Book has light soiling thus nearly very good plus. Dj has price clipped and modest soiling. Signed twice by the author who served in both the House and Senate from the fine State of Maine. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. SIGNED by Margaret Chase Smith directly on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). SEE OUR PHOTOS. Four internet downloads of her signature are laid-in for authentication (they vary just enough to distinguish from autopen). Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket . The jacket has one small edge chip and is price clipped. NO creases. NO fading. Remainder spray to the bottom edge. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. No highlighting. NO margin notes. 1972. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original biege cloth, stamped in black and bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995), served as a Senator from Maine for 24 years, having previously spent ten years in the House of Representatives. This autobiography/memoir of Chase's life takes its title from her 1950 speech on the floor of the US Senate denouncing the behavior of Joe McCarthy, especially his fear mongering campaign against alleged Communists in academia, Hollywood and the US Government. Signed by Margaret Chase Smith. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiv, 512pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never been offered for sale beforeIn 1900, at the age of 25, Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of L?beck, and their times. It was Mann?s first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author?s body of work, the Swedish Academy?s citation for Mann identified ?his great novel Buddenbrooks? as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897, when he was twenty-two years old.Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner?s in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works, including Nocturns.The League of American Writers was established by the First American Writers Congress, a gathering held from April 26?28, 1935. It was an association of American novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA in 1935. The group included Communist Party members, and so-called "fellow travelers" who closely followed the Communist Party's political line without being formal party members, as well as individuals sympathetic to specific policies being advocated by the parrty.In 1933, after the takeover of the Nazi party, while travelling in the South of France, Mann heard from his eldest children Klaus and Erika in Munich, that it would not be safe for him to return to Germany. The family (except these two children) emigrated to K?snacht, near Z?rich, Switzerland, but received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in 1936.Typed letter signed, April 22, 1935, to Hart, his publisher. "It is not easy for me to answer your suggestion in regards to this business news. I have read very carefully the appeal of the American writer?s congress. However, I have unsurmountable concerns about contributing a statement to the congress. In the second half of the appeal there is mention of ?civil liberties? It stands in logical contradiction to all previous statements, which have a purely communist character. A telegram on my part, as you have asked me to send, would be a clear support of communism, which I am not able to force myself to give. I have a true love of civil liberties, as much as I am against fascism and war. I much prefer the communist revolution to that of the fascists. Nevertheless, the wording of this appeal and the political orientation it lends to this congress does not allow me to follow your wishes to send a note of unrestricted sympathy to the congress. I beg you to understand and not interpret my position as a lack of courage. It is an act of good conscience, of what is my duty and what is not."Earlier than planned, my wife and I will have the opportunity to see you again. In June, a little bit later than last time, we will come to America and stay for a short while in New York."This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never before been offered for sale.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The PragueDeclaration on European Conscience and Communism (also known as thePrague Declaration), which was signed on 3 June, 2008, was a declarationsigned by several prominent European politicians, former politicalprisoners and historians, which called for condemnation of and educationabout communist crimes. The declaration concluded the conferenceEuropean Conscience and Communism, an international conference that tookplace at the Czech Senate from 2 to 3 June 2008, hosted by the SenateCommitte on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitionsunder the auspices of Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister of theCzech Republic for European Affairs. Notably the declaration called forthe establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims ofStalinism and Nazism, which was eventually designated by the EuropeanParliament on April 2, 2009 with a great majority.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 172 pp. Englisch.