The Making of the President, 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography
by Kitman, Marvin
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060159812
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159818
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Navy quarter cloth witf gilt titles, red boards, very clean and unmarked, has a slight wrinkle down blue cloth; tight, soldi and square with red and blue endbands. Internals as new. The true story of how the Mount Vernon Machine engineered the first election for George. In his magnum opus on the political process, Marvin Kitman presents and humorously analyzes the true facts of the most under-reported presidential election in history. He tells the story of how the machine took a man who looked great in a uniform and turned him into the first American Teflon statesman. An irreverent, laugh-a-paragraph account of the canonizartion of George Washington. 358 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6 x 9.5 inches. 1989, Harper & Row, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025841
- Title
- The Making of the President, 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography
- Author
- Kitman, Marvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060159812
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159818
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- WASHINGTON, GEORGE PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SATIRE
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. American;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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