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Paper. Condizione: Good. Good Congressional Record Reprint. 6" x 9" 13 pages. Speech July 21, 1955. Government Document.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, FINE CONDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by congresswoman Louise Goff Reece, widow of the author.From Preface: 'Such historians failed to make the general reader understand the real man and explain his motivations which caused his rise from the humblest of origins to the highest office in the land. This biography is neither fictionalized nor, it is fervently hoped, encumbered by scholarly argument so that the courageous commoner may be understood by those whom he loved and served -- the people.' Size: 6 x 9". Signed.

Pamphlet. Offprint; pp.126-163, staplebound 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed wraps; mild toning and edgewear, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 168 pp. Original gray cloth covers, lightly soiled. Corners and spine ends bumped. Bookplate on front paste-down, compliments of Congresswoman Louise Goff Reece (b. 1898 d. 1970), wife of author Brazilla Carroll Reece (b. 1889 d. 1961). Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.

Staplebound. 11p., very good condition reprint. Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 84th Congress, First Session. Includes discussion of Oppenheimer's link to the Ford Fund for the Republic.

Condizione: very good. 168, illus., notes and references, small rough spot inside front flyleaf, bookplate inside front board. The author, for 40 years, was a U.S. Representative from the First District of Tennessee, the same district that Andrew Johnson represented before he became Abraham Lincoln's Vice President and later President of the United States.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Carroll Reece led the famous Special Committee To Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations. The Director of Research for this Committee was the intrepid Norman Dodd who conducted his work between 1953 and 1954. To begin his speech, Mr. Reece states "It is with considerable reluctance that I make these remarks, but I feel compelled to do so. So many persons from all over tthe country have written me about the behavior of Dr. Robert M. Hutchins' giveaway program in behalf of so-called civil rights that I must make some kind of a public statement on the matter." - page 3. "Robert Hutchins became president of a Ford Foundation spinoff devoted to civil liberties, the Fund For The Republic, in 1954." - Wikipedia. Reece goes on to discuss at length the cases of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Mary Knowles, and the Mundt Bill - and their connections to the Ford Fund For The Republic. 13 stapled pages. 9" x 6". Intact and unmarked with average wear. A sound example of this fascinating exposé. ; 8vo.