Description
Very good dust jacket, a mylar jacket has been added, chipping at edges and spine ends, two 1″ tears along upper edge on back panel, price of $2.50 is present. Very Good+ binding is black cloth over boards, embossed decoration on front, gilt lettering on spine. Toning to inside covers. Untrimmed fore-edge. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.8″ wide.
Stated “First Edition”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
OREMUS JESSUP was a country editor. His people had been Vermonters for generations. He believed in the American democracy–but he believed too that no country in history was so ripe for a dictatorship as America. “It can’t happen here!” the hard-headed business men of Fort Beulah, Vermont, told him-but Jessup had seen the rise of Long’s empire in Louisiana, had seen Father Coughlin and Bishop Prang sway millions over the air, had watched the swift rise to power of Senator Berzelius Windrip, greatest of the demagogues, and his League of Forgotten Men. He sensed the changes in the air, the coming of the day when freedom, constitutional guarantees and truth as a democracy understands it would be lost to America. But even Doremus Jessup could not foresee the full force of the terror that was to sweep the country; the maelstrom that was to crash across America in a fury of blood and hate, carrying to destruction himself and all that he held dear.
