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The English Nobel Peace Prize winner Sir Ralph Norman Angell (1872-1967) was a lecturer, journalist and author. Angell served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. One of the founders of the Union of Democratic Control, Angell served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He served as an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism and as a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations, and president of the Abyssinia Association. Angell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerA critique of American society, examining campus unrest and student activism, by the Dean of the Yale School of Drama. Very good .
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Richard Carlile [1790-1843] was a famed political activist, radical publisher and a fearless campaigner for freedom of the press. He published works by Thomas Paine and radical pamphlets and journals, including Sherwin's Political Register, which was closed down by the government after he published in it the first full eyewitness report of the Peterloo massacre. He changed the name of the journal to The Republican and continued to press for the punishment of those responsible for the massacre. In the course of his career, he was prosecuted for blasphemy, libel and sedition and was imprisoned several times. His wife Jane was also imprisoned when she took over publication of The Republican while he was in jail. By 1821, Carlile was a declared atheist and the present pamphlet is a gleefully eloquent attack on the priesthood and "the multitude of assassinations, of massacres and of wars-- the avarice, the villainy, the bigotry and bloody-mindedness of Priests have occasioned.." The pamphlet opens with a declaration of the equality of man, a cause dear to his heart: "A Priest has the same essence, is composed of the same elements, endowed with the same organization as other men; he has no more natural command, no greater power, no greater right; Priests do not come into the world with crosiers or with mitres, or with rosaries; the revolutions of matter create and destroy them; they are decomposed as a cow or a cabbage.." He concludes: "..Whoever attempts to analyze the farce, to unveil the imposition of revealed religion, is sure to be attacked by Bishops, by Imans, by Bonzes, and by Muftis; truth acts upon these animals as light does upon the organization of bats and owls, and other reptiles, at mid-day".
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerA history of democratic movements in Mannheim, Germany, from the revolution of 1848-49 through the aftermath of World War II, told through documents from the city archives. Text in German. Fine .
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The newspaper portrait is a striking head-and-shoulders shot of Hamilton with closely cropped hair, large dark eyes and well-defined cheekbones, wearing a black dress or jacket. The full inscription reads: "To Seymour Halpern / with every good wish from / Mary Agnes Hamilton / July 1930".
Mary Agnes Hamilton, known as Molly, (1884-1966) was a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. In 1916 she caused controversy by writing an anti-war novel "Dead Yesterday". In the early 1920s she was the deputy editor of The New Leader. She also held a position on the Balfour Committee on Industry and Trade.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co- sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Very good .
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The Ex- libris of Edna and William Epstein wiith artwork in the style of Rockwell Kent is mounted on the inside front wrap. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller"Nothing less than direct representation to the coming Water Board will satisfy the ratepayers of the Metropolis..It would be a wholesome check on the members of that board if they were elected--as I trust the new water authority will be--by the suffrages of the ratepayers, and the votes of the water consumers.." [From a Thomas Wiseman letter quoted in the press and reprinted in this pamphlet].
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