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Dirty Politics: A survey of political chicanery in America by a nationally recognized authority on election ethics and tactics
by Felknor, Bruce L
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning/soil on spine and edges, chipping top of spine, NOT clipped ($5.95)
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About This Item
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning/soil on spine and edges, chipping top of spine, NOT clipped ($5.95). 8vo 295pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "This is the story of dirty campaigning and political chicanery in America, from the time of Washington, when politics was teh concern of an elite few and news traveled slowly, to the present day, when every citizen may vote and news travels at teh speed of light. It is a history of the declining importance of the personal slur and the new importance of innuendo and falsehood. It is an antidote to the men of guile and zeal who would steal the most priceless right of an unsuspecting public: the right to a vote based on facts." #01627.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1564
- Title
- Dirty Politics
- Author
- Felknor, Bruce L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: age toning/soil on spine and edges, chipping top of spine, NOT clipped ($5.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- politics, campaign, US politics, nonfiction, first edition, journalism
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
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