Fully titled and subtitled, Orden, Spiesser, Pfeffersäcke. Ein liberaler Streiter erinnert sich, which translates according to Google, Medals, philistines, pepper bags. A liberal debater remembers.  Authored by Ernst Müller-Meiningen, Jr, WHO INSCRIBED, DATED (1990), AND SIGNED THE BOOK ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE.  I can't decipher the inscription but clearly the inscription is signed by "Ernst" with the location, Munich, and date 7 . 3. 90  ending the inscription.  I have been able to find another example of his signature, on a letter being offered here on eBay (as of the posting of this book), and included a photo of that letter and signature as the last listing photo.  It is clear that Ernst is scripted the same way in that letter as in this book.  '

The book is in EXCELLENT CONDITION.  GLossy dust jacket with little edge and corner wear, no tears or chips, few light soil marks.  Pristine white cloth boards with clear red spine titling, slightly leaning to the right.  No further interior marks in 188 lightly toned solidly bound pages, ending with 3 pages of ads.  

I can't find a succinct description of the book.  Translating the text on the back, this looks to be a treatise of the author's experience with regard to freedom of the press, and the self-examination he went through in his later years.

A brief overview of this individual from Wikipedia (translated):

"Ernst Müller-Meiningen Jr. (8th. June 1908 in Munich; † 10 April 2006) was a German journalist.  He was an important representative of German post-war journalism and for many years chairman of the German and Bavarian Association of Journalists.

Life: He attended the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich and studied law in Munich and Kiel from 1926 to 1930. He received his doctorate with the dissertation The insult of persons who are in public life. In 1933 he passed the Great State Examination in Law.

During the regime he was banned from working for political reasons. Since he was denied admission to civil service or the legal profession, he found work as a legal clerk at a major bank, where he worked until 1945. To distinguish him from his father, Ernst Müller-Meiningen, he added "jr." to his name, which he retained until his death.

In 1946 he joined the newly founded Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) as an editor. His abbreviation "MM.jr." in the SZ was his trademark and became legendary. He was style-defining for his profession and had a tradition-forming effect. For two decades, from 1951 to 1971, he headed the German and Bavarian Association of Journalists. He was a founding member of the German Press Council and was a member of this self-regulatory body from 1956 to 1970.

For decades he determined the legal policy course of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and campaigned for a humane and free constitutional state. In his articles and comments he commented on problems in the judiciary, the press "or in the broadest sense of what was sometimes criticized as 'coming to terms with the past', and sometimes defamed". He campaigned against the introduction of the death penalty and was critical of the legal process of dealing with Nazi injustice. In his own words, he had a "tendency for jokes, satire, irony and, he hopes, a dash of humour". When the CSU politician Friedrich zimmermann was convicted of negligent false oaths in the context of the casino affair and was publicly scolded as a "perjurer", Müller-Meiningen jr. pointed out that this allegation was unfounded, because zimmermann In 1979 he retired from the editorial office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1997, on the occasion of the discussion about the Great Eavesdropping, he spoke for the last time in a letter to the editor, in which he ironically remarked that Article 1 of the Basic Law should be supplemented as follows: "Torture is only permissible in accordance with the general laws." "

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