The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas about the Surge of America in the 1990s
by WATTENBERG, Ben J
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0029340012
- ISBN 13
- 9780029340011
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About This Item
New York: The Free Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 418pp. Tables. Fine/fine. Pristine, tight and bright first edition -- boldly inscribed and signed in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Bob Malott / --- a shaper of this first / universal nation --- / With high regard, and many / thanks for your help to AEI / over the years, / Ben Wattenberg / AEI / 11/90." Wattenberg (1933-2015) was an influential but nonpartisan neoconservative political commentator and author. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago civic/business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. Wattenberg and Malott were both affiliated with the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute -- the "AEI" of his inscription. Copy of "Forbes" magaziine review of this title laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49166
- Title
- The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas about the Surge of America in the 1990s
- Author
- WATTENBERG, Ben J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0029340012
- ISBN 13
- 9780029340011
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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