Give Me Liberty
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [ii], 62 pages.
Rose Wilder Lane--daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder--considered herself a Communist in 1920. She travelled to Russia to see the dream of mankind's liberation from economic bondage come true, but instead found exploitation, regimentation, and degradation of the people under an already grinding tyranny. This is her response to what she found, and her affirmation of the American experiment.
Lane would go on to launch the modern Libertarian movement in America with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson.
This is the second printing, published a month after the first. A rather uncommon work, particularly in the dust jacket.
Bound in black paper over boards with title blocked in red on spine. Some minor bumps at spine ends. Price-clipped jacket has a 1/2" chip at heel of spine, similar sized chips along top edge of rear panel, chips and a few tears along spine, and other minor edge chips and wear. Cleanly closed 4" tear to front panel. Overall a very good to near fine copy in a good dust jacket.
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