The Wounded Land: Journey Through A Divided America
by Habe, Hans
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Translated from the German by Ewan Butler. A look at America in the after math of the assassination of John F Kennedy through the eyes of a naturalized American citizen who served in the US Army in WW II, a celebrated European journalist and novelist. He identifies America's longing to return to a simpler past, its boastful materialism, its ant-intellectualism, its political naivete, and its racial prejudice. Challenging, provocative, prophetic. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Jacket price-clipped. Binding of copper full cloth with gilt titles, very clean and unmarked, slight rubbing of some edges; tight and solid sewn binding. Pages clean and unmarked, lightly toned, some top corners faintly creased. Jacket is clean, rubbed, with moderate wear to extremities. 310 pages. 8.75 x 6 inches. Coward-McCann, New York, 1964.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014470
- Title
- The Wounded Land: Journey Through A Divided America
- Author
- Habe, Hans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- UNITED STATES-MATERIALISM, RACIAL PREJUDICE, ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM; POLITICAL NAIVETE;
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