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Beating the Unbeatable First Ed First Print

by Foe Frederick Schwarz

Beating the Unbeatable presents itself as a personal account of overcoming three formidable adversaries: communism, “Leviathan,” and “the last enemy.” Its subtitle, One Man’s Victory Over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy, places individual experience at the center while invoking political power and a final, broadly existential opponent. The wording suggests a work concerned with moral and ideological struggle, rather than a narrowly defined political analysis. The available description does not identify its chapters, specific events, or detailed arguments, so its themes are best understood through this framing rather than reconstructed beyond it.

Frederick Charles Schwarz, M.D., contributes the perspective of a physician presenting his own claimed victory. The book’s emphasis on “one man” gives the author a deliberately personal role: he is not merely commenting on communism but positioning himself as the subject of a conflict involving political and ultimate questions. The description also identifies Schwarz as the founder of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, which helps locate the work within an explicitly Christian anti-communist outlook. Beyond that institutional association, the available material does not establish the methods, evidence, or conclusions through which he develops his case.

The book’s significance lies in the way its title joins political opposition to larger questions of authority, mortality, or evil. “Leviathan” can be read as a name for overwhelming power, while “the last enemy” broadens the scope beyond ordinary political contest. This combination gives the work a rhetorically ambitious shape: personal testimony is presented as a response to both an ideology and forces that appear more universal. Its importance is therefore interpretive and historical in character, grounded in the perspective it announces rather than in claims about wider influence.

A collector might care about this work for its literary and artistic construction of conflict. The title and subtitle create a compact drama of an individual confronting immense political and existential forces, while the author’s Christian anti-communist position supplies a distinct voice and conceptual frame. Readers interested in the rhetoric of conviction, personal testimony, and ideological writing may find that combination worth preserving and revisiting. The work’s interest rests on how it stages belief and opposition, not on treating its claims as settled fact.

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Beating the Unbeatable Foe:

One Man's Victory Over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy

By Frederick Charles Schwarz, M.D.

First Edition, First Printing (number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)

Flat signed by Dr. Fred Schwarz on the title page.

Published by Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington D.C., 1996.

Condition:

  • Hardcover with dust jacket.
  • Signature is bold and clear.
  • Pages are clean and unmarked.
  • Please see all photos for condition details.

A collectible signed copy by the founder of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and a significant figure in the American conservative movement.

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Book & copy details

Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Publication year
1996
Edition
First edition
Format
Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN-10
0895264374
ISBN-13
9780895264374
Language
English
Signed by
Foe Frederick Schwarz
Signature
Signed
Book condition
Pre-Owned
Catalogue price
C $49.99
Inventory number
127954192206

Condition notes

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Clean pages, tight binding, light shelf wear.

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