SPREADING GERMS OF HATE, with a Foreword by Colonel Edward M. House
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by George Sylvester Viereck. Born in Munich, Viereck (1884-1962) was a minor poet who achieved notoriety in the United States as a pro-German propaganist, and eventually as an agent operating on behalf of Nazi Germany. In this work, he describes in detail his activities as a German propagandist in World War I: "There is no infallible safeguard against propaganda". Octavo: xiv, 327, [1, blank] pp. with 16 plates. Original cloth binding, with blue-stamped titling. Typical toning along the spine; otherwise very good. Very good. Item #79935
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