Description
First edition of A Republic, If You Can Keep It, inscribed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to his friend and real estate developer, Benjamin Swig.
Octavo, xiii, [3], 203pp. Red cloth, blue cloth spine, title on spine with illustration on cover stamped in gilt. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Minimal wear to tips of boards. In publisher’s dust jacket, $5.95 on front flap, faint shelf wear, bright illustrations and spine, a near fine copy.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Ben Swig, whose efforts to keep this a Republic I admire and whose friendship I so greatly value. Affectionately, Earl Warren. 6/24/72.”
Earl Warren (1891-1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1969. Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Warren is best known for his leadership in landmark Supreme Court cases that transformed American law and society, including Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Before his tenure on the Supreme Court, Warren was the Governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1948.
