[Item #41753] But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor [Inscribed to Cartha DeLoach]. John TOLAND.

But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor [Inscribed to Cartha DeLoach]

New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); cream-colored linen, with titling and rule stamped in gray and red on spine and front cover; gray topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; xvi,427,[5], with 16pp of photographic plates bound at center. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the half-title page: "Oct 30, 1961 / To C.D. DeLoach, With my best wishes - and thanks. John Toland." DeLoach's large, armorial bookplate to front endpaper, mild wear to spine ends, faint wrinkle to cloth toward upper spine panel, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear to spine ends and corners; Very Good+.

Attractive copy of Toland's history of the critical months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Cartha De Loach was head of the FBI's Criminal Records Division and a close confidant of Hoover's. He would eventually rise to the position of Deputy Associate Director during the Johnson administration, a position of great political influence in Hoover's FBI. DeLoach, a native Georgian, was deeply involved in the investigation of KKK activities in the South as well as ongoing surveillance of the Civil Rights movement.

Price: $150.00

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