The Turn Of The Balance By Brand Whitlock

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Brand Whitlock was an American journalist, attorney, politician, Georgist, four-time mayor of Toledo, Ohio elected on the Independent ticket; ambassador to Belgium, and author of numerous articles and books, both novels and non-fiction. Whitlock wrote numerous newspaper articles, short stories, novels, essays, biographies, non-fiction and memoirs. His novels dealt with political and social issues. The anarchist activist Emma Goldman described Whitlock’s novel The Turn of the Balance as “the greatest American exposé of crime in the making” and argued that its characters demonstrate “how the legal aspects of crime, and the methods of dealing with it, help to create the disease which is undermining our entire social life

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Bound in blue cloth with gold titling to front and spine, and an image of an eagle holding scales in it’s beak on the front board. No dustjacket. Sun bleaching to spine. Bumping to corners. Tanning to edges and all pages ate also tanned 1-2cm around the edges. Some shelfwear. Front and rear hinges are loose and cracking although still attached. Published by Alston Rivers London 1907

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Weight 574 kg