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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First edition. 371p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. [10], 371, [3 pages. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped and in a plastic sleeve. Some endpaper discoloration. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription is To Frank R. McNuich Esq for auld lang syne Tim Pridgen. Margaret Thomas reviewed this work for The New York Times when it was first published in 1941. Tory Oath is one of the most original and exciting historical novels to be published in the inter-war period. It has for its scene tidewater North Carolina, one of the bitterest battleground of the American Revolution, and for its characters the Scots who came to found a new Highland empire on Cape Fear. When the Revolution broke out, these proud Highlanders, torn between their sworn loyalty to the Crown and their fierce love of freedom, finally took their stand with the British. Tory oath is the story of one such Scot, young Duncan Stuart, who was loyal to his oath, though many good friends and even Mary McLeod, the girl he loved, were Whigs. The story follows the varying fortunes of Duncan and the Highland forces from their confident muster under the swaggering Scalpie Campbell to Moore's Creek, where they are routed by the Whigs in a wild battle. This work is believed to have been inscribed by the author to Frank Ramsay McNinch (April 27, 1873 April 2, 1950). He was a political figure who served as the mayor of Charlotte, as chairman of the Federal Power Commission, and as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. In the 1928 presidential election, McNinch, a Democrat, supported Republican Herbert Hoover for president. After he was elected, Hoover appointed McNinch to a seat on the Federal Power Commission, leading to a split in the North Carolina Democratic Party that damaged the political fortunes of new U.S. Sen. Cameron Morrison, a friend of McNinch. President Hoover, a Republican, was required by law to name one member of the opposite party to the Federal Power Commission and he chose McNinch. Appointed in 1930, the North Carolinian proved to be a very capable member and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, reappointed him. There were objections by leaders of the Democratic party in North Carolina to the initial appointment because of McNinch's failure to support the party in 1928. McNinch became chairman of the commission in 1933, however, and served until 1937. In that position he was a strong supporter of the president's program to provide cheap power to all the people. In 1935 he was the U.S. representative to the World Power Conference at The Hague, the Netherlands. As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1937 to 1939, he steadfastly opposed any form of censorship of radio. He also supported the granting of equal prime time for the airing of opposing points of view. In an address in Chapel Hill on 26 Jan. 1939, he said: "A broadcaster's duty is to see that his station is never used by persons or groups especially interested in some public question in such a way that his station's listeners are left without sufficient information to make their own independent judgments on questions they should help to decide." From 1939 until 1946, when he retired, he was special assistant to the attorney general. The controversial 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast occurred during his tenure as FCC head. McNinch resigned as FCC chairman on July 25, 1939, due to ill health. His home, the Frank Ramsay McNinch House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.