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Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
by Conrad Black
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 159403673X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594036736
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First American edition, with dust jacket, published by Encounter Books, 2013. Conrad Black here analyzes the far reaching strategies that led to the United States rising from British colony to world leading Superpower. 746 pages with Index, 6-1/2" X 9-1/4". Introduction by Henry Kissinger. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Cover boards are flat, the bottom front right corner has a very slight bump mark. Sewn binding is tight and square. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Top edge of the text block has a few bump marks - see photos. Fore edge of the text block has a few faint smudge marks from use. Not a remainder, not a library discard. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
CONRAD BLACK is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. The former head of the Argus and Hollinger corporate groups and of London's Telegraph newspapers, Black is also the founder of Canada's National Post , and a columnist there and at the National Review Online (New York). Black has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001. In 2005, Black was accused of a total of 17 charges of criminal corporate misconduct in the United States, and prosecutors sough life imprisonment and fines and restitution totalling $140 million. After six years, all the charges were either abandoned, rejected by jurors, or in the case of four convictions, vacated unanimously by the United States Supreme Court. One the original convictions, he was sentenced to imprisonment for 78 months and restitution of $6.1 million. After 29 months in federal prison, he was released on bail, but the appellate panel whose findings had been vacated by the high court restored two counts when the case was remanded back to it. On June 24, 2011, Black was resentenced to a further seven and a half months in prison and 90 per cent of his fine was restored to him. On May 4, 2012, he was released. He has never ceased to assert his innocence.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23-06466
- Title
- Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
- Author
- Conrad Black
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 159403673X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594036736
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-05
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
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- Jacket
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- Remainder
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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