The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong
by WATTENBERG, Ben J
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0671475452
- ISBN 13
- 9780671475451
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 431pp. Tables. Near fine/fine. Wonderfully tight, bright AEI reprint edition of this study in which (screams jacket front panel) "A Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute... examin[es] the facts, exploding the myths, and revealing the economic, social, political, and demographic trends that are shaping America's future." Boldly inscribed and signed in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "For Bob Malott -- / Wishing you much / good news! / Ben Wattenberg / AEI / 10/84." Wattenberg (1933-2015) was an influential 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. Laid in is a "Fortune" magazine review of this title.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49167
- Title
- The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong
- Author
- WATTENBERG, Ben J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671475452
- ISBN 13
- 9780671475451
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
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- Books; Americana;
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