american tradition (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut.

Zustand: Very good. - 39 words penned on an 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheet of The Living Age letterhead. Signed "Quincy Howe". The right edge & top edge of the letterhead are slightly darkened. Pieces of tape adhere to the verso where the item was removed from an album. Folded 3 times for mailing. Very good. Howe writes to an unidentified committee about tickets to the committe's upcoming party in Harlem. Howe was an editor for The Living Age from 1923 to 1929 when the magazine was sold. After the sale, the new owner rehired Howe as Editor-in-Chief.An advocacy journalist in the tradition of New England liberalism, Quincy Howe [1900-1977] helped bring food to striking miners in Harlan County, Ky in 1932; opposed restriction of immigration; and was active in prison reform. As a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 to 1940, he fought against censorship. But it was in foreign policy matters that Howe drew the most attention in the thirties. A critic of dictatorships of the left and the right, he was sympathetic to the rising nationalist movements in the colonial empires of the Old World. He was a member of the left-wing American League against War and Fascism. In his writings of that time he stressed the dangers of American intervention in another world war.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5 inches wide. Two pages penned on the first and third pages of a folded sheet. Over 150 words penned by the radical minister William J. Potter addressed to a Mrs. Richmond regarding arrangements for a lecture he will give at the meeting of her club. After mentioning that she should expect him on the 5 p.m. train, as that is the earliest he can leave Boston for Lowell that day, he expresses his pleasure that she likes his latest essay: "I am glad if you have found so much to enjoy in my essay on 'The New Protestantism'" and, though he would be tempted to read it at the lecture he had "thought of reading a paper which I call 'Two Views of Tradition, - The Ecclesiastical & the Scientific.' And on the whole this seems to me more appropriate." Signed "Wm. J. Potter". In a postscript, Potter suggests that if Mrs. Richmond's not fully recovered her health by then, it might be better to postpone the meeting and he would then come later in the season. Folded several times for mailing with a small piece out from the bottom front corner of the second page. The Unitarian minister and Freethinker William James Potter (1829-1893) was a radical minister in the American Free Thought tradition of his era. Influenced by the Transcendentalists, he was later strongly influenced by Charles Darwin. Moving from his Quaker foundations to Unitarian Christianity and then towards free religion, Potter was a founder with David Atwood Wasson of the Free Religious Association (1867-1920). Potter drafted the Free Religious Association's constitution and eventually served as it's president: "The new society would dedicate itself to the emancipation of religion from the thralldom of irrational and traditional authorities." From 1859 to 1892, he served as the minister of the Unitarian Church in New Bedford (First Congregational Society). Potter was the poet Conrad Aiken's grandfather. In his autobiography "Ushant", Aiken says that his entire life was devoted to the ideas and work of Potter.