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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
by [DELLINGER] Dellinger, David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679405917
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405917
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition; no other printings noted. Hard cover in fine condition with blue boards and spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains a section of 4 leaves / 8 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; tiny rubbing to back top corner; not price clipped. * From the jacket, 'The son of a well-to-do Boston lawyer. . . rejecting his comfortable background, he walked out of Yale one afternoon during the Great Depression . . .without any money, rode the freight trains, slept at missions, and stood in breadlines. . . .he first knew that in his own way he would follow the path of Francis of Assisi. . . .living among the poor, joined freedom marches through the south, led hunger strikes. . . . introduced Gandhi's principles of nonviolence to the political street struggles against the Vietnam War. . . .his recollections shed new light on many of the most crucial events of the 1960s . . .above all [this book] is a stirring account of an extraordinary spiritual journey, as moving as it is inspiring.'
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001204
- Title
- From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
- Author
- [DELLINGER] Dellinger, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679405917
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405917
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Biography, Nonviolence, Radicals - United States - Biography, David T. Dellinger - 1915-2004
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- Biography;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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