THAT MAN HEINE: A BIOGRAPHY
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. With the collaboration of Elsa Weihl. This best-selling biography of the German poet, Heinrich Heine, is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Browne to his good friend Sinclair Lewis: “For my favourite evangelist,/Sinclair Lewis,/with rabbinical benedictions from/Lewis Browne.” Browne was an ordained Rabbi who left that calling after his second book, THIS BELIEVING WORLD, often cited as the most popular book about religion of the era, became a surprise best-seller in 1926. Browne and Lewis had a long friendship as well as a productive working relationship. In the early 1940s, the two men toured the lecture circuit together, debating a variety of topics in front of large audiences. Perhaps inspired by Lewis’s IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, Browne wrote a similar anti-Fascist novel in 1943 called SEE WHAT I MEAN. Browne committed suicide in January of 1949. Light fading to spine, else clean, Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Item #022427
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