Cause at Heart follows Junius Irving Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil- and labor- rights work for the Party across the South, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison.
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Cause at Heart follows Junius Irving Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil- and labor- rights work for the Party across the South, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison.
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Good. Tanning/scratches/some marks to dustjacket & creases at edges. Marks/some staining to textblock edges. Text very good. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 427 p.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. -Great overall condition. Minor wear, no major blemishes. No writing.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; The University of Georgia Press; Athens, 1987. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by both authors directly on title page. Very Good, grey cloth binding with red lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, bit of crimping to spine edges, faint stress crease to spine, bit of age toning to pages, smudge mark to a bit dusty top text block edge, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, couple of small soiled spots bottom rear panel, Mylar protected, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 427pp., epilogue, indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Lia Nickson (Title-page photographs) Good in Good jacket. xxv, [1], 427 Pages. Illustrations. Index. Signed by both authors on the title page. Some page soiling and several pages have wrinkling/rippling (about pages 275-286) Some pencil underlining and marks noted. Some spine weakness noted at page 29 and restrengthened with glue. Foreword by Telford Taylor. Junius Scales (March 26, 1920-August 5, 2002) was an American leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America notable for his arrest and conviction under the Smith Act in the 1950s. After his release, he settled in New York and was hired by The New York Times. A play, "The Limits of Dissent", by University of North Carolina Professor Lou Lipsitz, based on his trial transcript, was produced in collaboration with the Winston-Salem School of the Arts and toured the stated courthouses in collaboration with the ACLU. His memoirs, "Cause At Heart: A Former Communist Remembers", written with his closest friend, Richard Nickson, appeared in 1987. A paperback edition with new introductions by scholars Vernon Burton and James R. Barrett appeared in 2005. "Cause At Heart" was issued as an e-book by Plunkett Lake Press in 2018. A book based on interviews conducted in 1971, by Mickey Friedman, was published as "A Red Family" in 2007. Richard Nickson was a professor emeritus of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey. On November 18, 1954, Junius Irving Scales, the Communist Party district organizer for the upper South, was arrested on a quiet Memphis street by FBI agents. Charged with violation of the Smith Act of 1940, Scales spent the next six years ensnared in a legal system that was in thrall to a daunting force: McCarthyism. Scales's case twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court; ultimately, his lower-court guilty verdict was upheld. Scales served fifteen months in Lewisburg Penitentiary before his six-year sentence was commuted by President Kennedy in 1962. Cause at Heart follows Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil-and labor-rights work for the Party across the South, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison. Even behind bars Scales refused to cooperate with his prosecutors, to name names. William Herrick in a New York Times Book Review wrote: "Moving and memorable...It is the voice of a decent, idealistic man who spent eighteen years of his life in the Communist Party doing everything up to serving as district organizer for several Southern states, including North Carolina. And we don't hear a false note: he is telling us the truth, as he reveals his illusions and delusions, his weaknesses and his strengths, his passionate belief in his party and the Soviet Union, and all the nagging doubts as well. He spares us nothing....An interesting document that helps to explain in no small measure the tragic attraction the strange and hydra-headed American Communist Party held for the many decent human beings who passed through its revolving doors."
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Good. Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. Shelfwear. Bumped edges. Minor Exterior Wear. Pages clean. Binding tight. May contain pen markings and highlights. Hardcover.