Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening
by Ernest Gruening
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Liveright, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by author on ffep. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. A tad spine-cocked. Minor soiling to edges of textblock. Previous owner's name on half-title page, otherwise interior is clean. Dust jacket has a couple short closed tears; chip at bottom edge of front panel; not price clipped; in a clear archival sleeve. Illustrations. Index. x, 564 pages. 8.8 x 5.8 inches. Autobiography of Alaskan governor, U.S. Senator, and journalist, Ernest Gruening (1887-1974). Gruening was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard. After serving as an editor for the The New York Herald Tribune, The New York Post, The Nation, and the Boston Traveler, he went to work for the Roosevelt administration in 1933, where he served in the Department of the Interior as was Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. He was Governor of the Alaskan Territory between 1939 and 1953, and served as U.S. Senator for Alaska between 1959 and 1969.
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- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013113
- Title
- Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening
- Author
- Ernest Gruening
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, Alaska, Governor of Alaska, United States Senators, Alaskan politicians,
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