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Seller's Description:
Very good in fair jacket. 22 cm. viii, [2], 434 pages, Illustrations. Notes. Index. Former owner's stamp has left an impression on flyleaf. Kefauver, who became famous through his attacks on organized crime, monopoly pricing, and drug company abuses, was born into a prosperous old Tennessee family, worked as a corporation lawyer during most of the '30's, and gained a House seat in 1939 as a New Dealer, firmly supporting TVA and Lend-Lease. Kefauver became the major antagonist of the Dixon-Yates move to abolish public power in the early 50's as well as an opponent of the McCarran Act. Kefauver's passion went into his anti-crime and anti-price fixing crusades, his battles with the Memphis-based Crump machine, his struggles with local racist-conservative challengers, and his 1952 and 1956 primary campaigns against Adlai Stevenson. Carey Estes Kefauver (July 26, 1903-August 10, 1963) was an American politican from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his death from a heart attack in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1963. After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his party's nomination for President of the united States. In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. Still holding his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in 1956, Kefauver was named chair of the U. S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Poor jacket. AO5-A first edition hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner in very good condition that has some bumped corners and light cover edgewear, some stains on the back, light tanning and shelf wear in poor dust jacket that is mylar protected, price clipped, wrinkling, chipping, crease, and long tears on the edges and corners, scattered scratches, lighttanning, and shelf wear. A perceptive and forceful biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures, Mr. Gorma's book brings to Kefauver's senatorial battles, and to the development of the 1952 campaign in particaular, a rare brand of insight. 8.5"x6", 434 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
