A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 (signed and association copy)

1941. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. HISTORY SIGNED Very Good No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated: 62 illustrations drawn from unusual sources and specially chosen by the author. Inscribed by the author reverse of front end paper: "To Tomi Crain, with gratitude and affection Carlton J.H. Hayes, February, 1943." Binding is tight and pages are clean. Provenance and association: This item was purchased at the estate sale of Agnes Crain, daughter or Earl T. Crain and his wife (possibly Tomi). Earl was a diplomat for the USA and served around the world. He served many US Presidents. See the reproduction of the estate sale classified ad also. Per internet research Hayes was an ambassador to Spain during WWII. Earl was his underling. The following excerpt is from a book by Jimmy Burns entitled Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain (pages 130-31), which is google book: Within weeks of his arrival in Spain Burns established a close relationship with several members of the American staff. They included Earl Crain, a young, energetic and outgoing second secretary who used his diplomatic cover to build up a ?press and propaganda section? with a brief as wide as that developed by the British. The fact that Crain was nicknamed ?Tom? by his American colleagues was a light-hearted reference to his operational twinning with Burns. The Two men had been posted to Spain at around the same time. Burns?s privileged status on the American embassy books as a friend and colleague became further enhanced when Carlton Hayes, another Catholic, was appointed ambassador. Hayes was a new arrival on the diplomatic scene, recruited from Columbia University where he as a professor, specializing in sixteenth-century Spanish history. An admirer of Isabella, the Catholic Queen who was behind the reconquest of Spain from the Moors and Columbus?s voyage of discovery and colonization, he saw Franco as personifying the Christian values that had dominated large parts of the globe during Spain?s golden age of empire. Hayes saw Franco as a phenomenon specifically of Spanish political history, whose sense of national pride would make him resist any attempt by Hitler to absorb Spain into the Third Reich.