The American A Middle Western Legend

by Howard Fast

$125 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

First edition · Signed

Hardcover, New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946. First Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. The American is a novel which tells the story of John Peter Altgeld of Illinois, a latter-day Lincoln, who sacrificed money and health and political power, to become the champion of democracy and the foe of greed and corruption. Ships same or next

• Binding: Hardcover

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