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Baruch, The Public Years
by Baruch, Bernard M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/G (light age toning to edges as expected with age, pages are otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has overall shelfwear and smal
- Seller
-
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/G (light age toning to edges as expected with age, pages are otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has overall shelfwear and small tears. Signed and inscribed by author). Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, white and blue dust jacket with color illustration on back, xii, 431 pp, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits. Inscribed and signed by author on front end page. Contents include: Discontent with Wall Street -- America goes to war -- The Advisory Commission -- The War Industries Board -- Some Washington friends -- The Paris Peace Conference -- The Big Three -- The fight for the League -- The Farmer's Plight -- Democrats in defeat -- The Harding-Coolidge years -- The defeat of Al Smith -- The Great Crash -- F.D.R. and the New Deal -- The fight for preparedness -- War production problems -- Plans for reconversion -- Mission to London -- Control of atomic energy -- The Cold War -- The world we face.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 177218
- Title
- Baruch, The Public Years
- Author
- Baruch, Bernard M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/G (light age toning to edges as expected with age, pages are otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has overall shelfwear and smal
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Biography / Autobiography ; Baruch, Bernard M. ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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