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Zürich [& New York]: Verlag Oprech. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. Third Edition. Softcover. Publisher's stiff plain white wrappers, with dust jacket -- printed in white and black on a pale green background. Clean and unmarked, with some rubbing along the edges of the dust jacket, which has modest wear and tear at the spine ends. The text on the dust jacket adds "New York" to the imprint of Verlag Oprecht / Zürich -- (not repeated on the title page). Indeed, this speech had its origin and target audience in the United States. The verso of the title page contains the statement: " Leicht erweiterte Form eines Vortrags, der im Frühjahr 1938 in 15 Städten der USA gehalten wurde." Agnes Ernst Meyer, American journalist, scholar and socialite befriended Thomas Mann in the thirties and translated this text of his into English -- ['The Coming Victory of Democracy,' New York: Alfred Knopf, 1938]. Mrs. Meyer, born in New York City to first-generation German emigre parents, was also instrumental in securing a position for Thomas Mann on the faculty at Princeton, and arranging introductions for the author into social, artistic and intellectual communities in the States. It is interesting to note that there is a picture postcard loosely inserted in this copy, addressed to Dr. Karl Menninger in Topeka, from his daughter Julia. The illustration depicts a newly discovered grotto in Monaco -- [... "all the rest here, except for the beautiful landscape, is better left untold."] This is not enough evidence to confirm the ownership of this copy, but it certainly can be said that the long-lived Karl Menninger, co-founder of the eponymous clinic which still bears his and his father's names in Topeka) knew Thomas Mann and would not have required assistence in reading this text in its original German. In the same year this speech was published, Dr. Menninger wrote of Mann's famous 'Death in Venice' that it illustrated how novelists show the way in which people who commit suicide begin their self-destruction by bringing about its justification, unconsciously, in external reality. .

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ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 1-0363-5375-3, 978-1-0363-5375-9