Son of the Gods

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front endpage - "To General Will H. Hays, with the admiration and regard of the writer Rex Beach". Basis for the 1930 film starring Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett. Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies, Hays installed a more formal production code, called the Hays Code( later simply "The Code"), which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. A great Hollywood ASSOCIATION COPY ! Book is Very Good, lacking the dustjacket and spine faded but titles still legible..