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The New Right Humanitarians
Albuquerque, NM: Inter-Hemispheric Education Research Center, 1986. Paperback. 66p., 8.5x11 inches, spiralbound wraps, second printing. Describes the use of tax exempt organizations, networking with partisan policymakers, to support rightist causes, particularly in Latin America. Sections on the Coors family, Council for National Policy, J. Peter Grace, etc. Biographies of various..... More
Cat.No: 121666
"Better dead than red!" A nostalgic look at the golden years of Russiaphobia, red-baiting, and other commie madness
New York: Hyperion, 1992. Paperback. Not paginated, wraps, heavily illustrated, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 47982
Red scared! The Commie menace in propaganda and popular culture
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. Paperback. 160p., 10x7.5 inch wraps, color illustrations, first edition, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 126547
Can Hitler cripple America's economy? See what three of America's outstanding economists say: Bernard M. Baruch, Raymond Moley, George N. Peek
Chicago: American First Committee, [1941?]. Pamphlet. 31p., wraps soiled and a bit worn, pencil brackets to page 11, else good condition, 4x6.75 inches. The publisher's helpfully inform us that reading time for this pamphlet is "17 minutes, 40 seconds." More
Cat.No: 243034
Nuclear scientist defects to the United States. Hearing before the subcommittee to investigate the administration of the Internal Security Act and other internal security laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. Eighty-ninth Congress, first session.
Washington, DC: GPO, 1964. iii, 94p., wraps. Senate testimony of Heinz Barwich, director of East Germany's Institute for Nuclear Reasearch in Rossendorf, who defected in 1964. More
Cat.No: 121318
Popular fallacies regarding trade and foreign duties, being the "Sophismes économiques" of Frédéric Bastiat, late member of the Institute of France, adapted to the present time by E.R. Pearce-Edgcumbre
London: Cassell & Company, LTD, 1885. 80p., wraps, spine neatly bound with plain white paper tape. More
Cat.No: 133282
The Gentleman from Maryland; the conscience of a gay conservative
New York: Arbor House, 1986. Hardcover. xii, 276p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 16174
Joe McCarthy and the press
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. x, 270p., inscribed by Bayley, very good hardcover in lightly shelfworn dj. More
Cat.No: 15022
From the address "America's Fifth Column"
New York: [National Federation of Sales Executives-?], n.d. 5p., stapled wraps, 6.25x8.25 inches, lightly worn. Not found in OCLC as of August 2017. Argues that 4,000 school systems in the US are "contaminated" by unpatriotic teachers, but advertises the Democracy Readers published by Macmillan as an antidote. "Macmillan proves to..... More
Cat.No: 144969
All America louse; a candid biography of Drew A. Pearson
Arlington, VA: Columbia Publishing Company, 1967. 91p., ads, third printing of this staplebound booklet first issued in 1965 with slightly shorter pagination, mild handling soil. Fresh from the nonpartisan insights of his "Guns of the Regressive Right," a shrewd JFK assassination scenario, Beale relapses into fretful anticommunism. More
Cat.No: 112224
The American inquisition 1945-1960
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973. xvii, 316p., inscribed "For Ben Cunningham, in great gratitutde and respect, Cedric Belfrage, Nov., 1973," dj. More
Cat.No: 27583
The American inquisition 1945-1960
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973. xvii, 316p., inscribed to "Sylvia and John" [Powell] in San Francisco, 1973. Hardcover with John W. "Bill" Powell's Chinese-themed bookplate, dj. More
Cat.No: 130719
The American inquisition 1945-1960
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973. xvii, 316p., inscribed to "For Robert Chrisman in Cuernavaca, September, 1982" and signed by Belfrage, slightly musty, hardcover with a worn dj. More
Cat.No: 172460
The Coors connection; how Coors family philanthropy undermines democratic pluralism
Boston: South End Press, 1991. 149p., very good in wraps. A Political Research Associates book. More
Cat.No: 50723
[Broadside introducing 'We the People' and outlining the "Socialistic Communist conspiracy to weaken the United States"]
Chicago: We the People, [1964]. 11x17 inch broadside printed both sides, with an introductory section by Banson, the former Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower who went on to become the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fold-creased, otherwise very good. The rear reprints a piece..... More
Cat.No: 244898
How to stop heir pollution
Belmont, MA: The Review of the News, [1970]. 7p., very good in staplebound wraps. Reprinted from a John Birch Society magazine, outlines the movement to build private schools in order to escape the ostensibly communist-pervaded degeneracy of public schools. Much on Robert Thoburn's Fairfax Christian School. More
Cat.No: 200693
One Thousand Homosexuals: conspiracy of silence, or curing and deglamorizing homosexuals?
Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1959. Hardcover. ix, 249p., preface, footnotes, very good first edition stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Clinical facts, says psychiatrist Bergler, "prove that homosexuality is a disease and is curable." - dj. More
Cat.No: 13931
BCU Bulletin, vol. IX no. 6 (June, 1969)
Berkeley: Berkeley Citizens United, 1969. 8p. bulletin, 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, with a mass-produced cover letter by Shryock introducing conservative student activities by Young Americans for Freedom at Berkeley in the midst of radical turmoil. Notes that no media attended their rally in support of eating grapes..... More
Cat.No: 164869
The Public Eye: A Journal of Social and Political Issues Concerning Repression in America Vol. 3, Issues 1 and 2 [Double Issue]
Chicago: Citizens in Defense of Civil Liberties, 1981. 46p., 8x10.75 inches, stapled wraps, paper slightly browned, else very good. Cover story is "Posse Comitatus: Right-Wing Tax Revolt Backed by Bullets", plus articles on police repression in LA, films that exploit women, and more. More
Cat.No: 240881
The New York City draft riots; their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix, 363p., illus., dj. More
Cat.No: 9408
The New York City draft riots; their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix, 363p., illus., wraps. More
Cat.No: 38160
The New York City draft riots; their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix, 363p., illus., previous owners bookplate and shelf numbers on endpapers, dj. More
Cat.No: 71704
Inside out; a memoir of the blacklist
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 292p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 42255
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Vote for a Business Man: George M. Cowell for Assemblyman 59th District [handbill] Republican press exposes Lyon as "bad candidate"
Beverly Hills: the committee, 1950. [Leaflet] single leaf of semi-coated offwhite paperstock printed in green ink with vignette photoportrait of Cowell, verso quotes a Hollywood Citizen-News article at length, about 500 words total. Paperstock toned and begun to be fragile, showing a short tear along an original foldline and a...... More
Cat.No: 177462
Voluntary resettlement of American Negroes in Africa
Washington DC: GPO, 1939. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 9x11 inches. Edgewear at top of front cover, otherwise very good. Text from the Congressional Record of a speech by the senator from Misssissippi calling for African-American "repatriation" in order to prevent the "commingling of the blood streams" and the destruction of white..... More
Cat.No: 224641
La nuova Europa / Basta con la tirannia del denaro [The New Europe / Enough with the tyranny of money] [small poster]
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