The Jefferson Awards

[No place]: The Maple Press Company, (1977).

Price: $1,200.00

Hardcover. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Quarto. Fine. Inscribed by Rodino to Joe DiMaggio: "To the 'Yankee Clipper' Joe DiMaggio - with respect and admiration and the warm personal good wishes of your friend - Peter W. Rodino. Washington, D. C. October 1979." Rodino was a Democratic United States Congressman from a heavily Italian-American New Jersey district who rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, where his conduct of the generally partisan proceedings was widely praised. With a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio's two granddaughters.

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Item #93695 The Jefferson Awards. Peter W. RODINO.