The Militant South

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Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped pictorial dust jacket; with edge-wear. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Lois and Philip Jessup, with the best wishes of John Hope Franklin," on the half-title page. ---- Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He also served as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. At times Jessup and Franklin traveled in the same circles. In 1955, for instance, both men published articles in the Political Science Quarterly. They also delivered University of Michigan commencement addresses. A handsome copy of Franklin's pioneering work about southern antebellum militancy with a distinguished provenance. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-16361034073

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