ISBN10: 0897334434, ISBN13: 9780897334433, [publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated] Hardcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Chicago Review Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Chicago Review Press, Incorporated ISBN 0897334434 9780897334433 [US]

Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 1998. hardcover with dustjacket. 0897334434 . No names or marking. Includes bibliographical references. ; Standard Book Size; 273 pages . 1998. Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago. ISBN 0897334434 9780897334433 [US]

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, Date: 1998. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 273pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A highly presentable copy of this account of the 1933 assassination attempt on the life of President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Miami Florida, on February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed New Jersey bricklayer from Italy, fired five pistol shots at the back of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt's head from only twenty-five feet away. While all five rounds missed their target, each bullet found a separate victim. One of these was Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died of his wound some three weeks later. A scant two weeks after that, Zangara was executed in the electric chair. It was perhaps the swiftest legal execution in twentieth-century American history. With his death, Zangara took to the grave the answer to one of the most baffling unsolved mysteries in the annals of Presidential assassinations. Was FDR Zangara's real target? Or was he a mob hitman who actually intended to kill Cermak, as legendary columnist and FDR confidant Walter Winchell believed? Was he a terrorist, as the LA police contended? Could he have been a member of La Camorra, a Neapolitan crime society, as the ...

ISBN10: 0897334434, ISBN13: 9780897334433, [publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago] Hardcover First Edition Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 273pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A highly presentable copy of this account of the 1933 assassination attempt on the life of President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Miami Florida, on February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed New Jersey bricklayer from Italy, fired five pistol shots at the back of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt's head from only twenty-five feet away. While all five rounds missed their target, each bullet found a separate victim. One of these was Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died of his wound some three weeks later. A scant two weeks after that, Zangara was executed in the electric chair. It was perhaps the swiftest legal execution in twentieth-century American history. With his death, Zangara took to the grave the answer to one of the most baffling unsolved mysteries in the annals of Presidential assassinations. Was FDR Zangara's real target? Or was he a mob hitman who actually intended to kill Cermak, as legendary columnist and FDR confidant Walter Winchell believed? Was he a terrorist, as the LA police contended? Could he have been a member of La Camorra, ...
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U.S.A.: Chicago Review Press, Date: 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1ST. Excellent Copy - Signed - To Bill Howe, Sr. With Best Wishes - "Push Da Button" - By The Author On The Front Free End Page. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, No Real Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks, And Enjoy.. 1998. Chicago Review Press ISBN 0897334434 9780897334433 [US]