Eagle Forgotten by Harry Barnard - 1973: The Life of John Peter Altgeld

Secaucus, New Jerseuy : Lyle Stuart , Inc. , 1973. Hardcover. Very Good +/Flap clipped. The poem " The Eagle That Is Forgotten ", by Vachel Lindsay , opposite the copyright page.....With Eight Books, 38 Chapters, The Books Titled : The Struggle..... The Man of Property.... The Bomb..... The Judge.... The Pardon ....The Strike.... The Revolt....The Young Old Man. Notes. Bibliography . Index. About John Peter Altgeld ( 1847 - 1902 ) , educated in Ohio, served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, moved to Illinois, elected to the Superior Court of Cook County, wrote " Our Penal System and It's Victims " , elected Governor of Illinois in 1892, pardoned 3 Haymarket anarchists, protested U. S. President Cleveland's sending of U. S. troops during The Pullman strike . Smooth textured glistenning cloth book with large, indented , black-colored lettering on the spine. ( 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 X 1 1/8 ) 496 pages. " An important biography about a sublime American character " - Carl Sandberg....." One of the great underground Americans, hated as an enemy of orthodoxy , sacrificing his own career to stand up to dissenters " - comment on dist jacket. Book weighs 1 3/4 pounds. John Peter Altgeld, also the basis for author, Howard Fast's book : ' The American " .

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