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1941 H. R. Knickerbocker book release...
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1941 H. R. Knickerbocker book release...

Item # 729436 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 29, 1941 

* H. R. Knickerbocker's upcoming book release advertisement

The back page has a large advertisement for the upcoming release of H.R. Knickerbocker's book titled: "Is Tomorrow Hitler's 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind" with a image of Hitler. (see images) 
Complete with all 36 pages, a little spine wear, very nice condition. 

Background: This August 29, 1941 edition of The New York Times is a striking artifact of pre-WWII interventionist media, featuring a high-impact back-page advertisement using the provocative tagline "Why doesn't somebody Kill Hitler?"—a key promotional hook for Pulitzer Prize–winning foreign correspondent H.R. Knickerbocker’s book, Is Tomorrow Hitler's? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind. Printed over three months before Pearl Harbor when the United States was still staunchly neutral, this feature captures a pivotal historical moment where figures expelled by the Nazi regime were attempting to shock an isolationist American public into recognizing the immediate global threat of fascism. Complete, original copies of late-1941 New York Times issues featuring such bold war-era political graphic advertisements are notably rare today, as the vast majority of newspapers from this period were systematically destroyed during mandatory wartime scrap drives.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.