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New York. 1998. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679416218. 319 pages. hardcover. keywords: Politics California History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The year 1950 produced one of the most notorious and influential election contests in America's history. In California, two prominent members of Congress, Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas, squared off for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was a dynamic thirty-seven-year-old lawyer of moderate means who had just helped send Alger Hiss to jail; she was a rich and beautiful former actress turned progressive Democrat - a pioneering female activist in Congress who attempted to become one of the first women elected to the Senate. In a climate of Red hysteria, Nixon's chief election strategy was smearing Douglas as a Communist sympathizer. She was, he said, pink right down to her underwear.' Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady is the first book to present a full-length portrait of the campaign widely remembered as one of the dirtiest…
Read More Sheet Music (1) from this Broadway Musical. Song: My Beautiful Lady.; Words by C.M.S. McLellan. Music by Ivan Caryll by PINK LADY, THE (1911) - 1911
by PINK LADY, THE (1911)
Sheet Music (1) from this Broadway Musical. Song: My Beautiful Lady.; Words by C.M.S. McLellan. Music by Ivan Caryll
by PINK LADY, THE (1911)
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NY: Chappell, 1911. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. 6pp, words and music, in part: "If I were a man I'd be not president, but just he Who plays the violin in the band at the Cafe de Paris...." 13.75" x 10.5" This musical comedy, produced by Klaw & Erlanger, was based on the French farce by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand.
- Bookseller R & A Petrilla (US)
- Format/Binding Pictorial Cover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Chappell
- Place of Publication NY
- Date Published 1911
- Keywords broadway musicals