Search Results: Politics from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. 443pp/illus. In this new biography of Burr's formative years, Milton Lomask answers the charges of moral obtuseness, political opportunism and excessive ambition. DJ has light wear. Text clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hawthorn Books, 1977. Approximately 124 pages (unpaginated. ) w/ 111 drawings.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Crown, 2006. Autographed by Pres Obama on Title Page. First Edition - later printing. Comes with COA. Text clean.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1969. 371pp. Boss Cermak & Levine of Chicago; La Guardia & other New York Mayors.Many other articles on Mayors of the era. Lindsay,John. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.: Brassey's Inc, 1998. 312pp., text ills., bibliog., index, Inscribed by author on title page. An Analysis of 38 UN Operations conducted since 1948. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Covina, CA: Classic Publications, 1976. 660pp/illus. Contents: v. 1-2. The facts and findings surrounding the Watergate blunders of Richard M. Nixon, et al. v. 3. Kunkin, A. Organized crime behind Nixon! Subjects: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994. Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. light wear overall clean.. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1988. 293pp. From the Easton Press series, The Library of the Presidents, this book is a collection of President Kennedy's speeches from 1961 to 1963, Handsomely bound in genuine leather (maroon) accented with 22kt gold and printed on specially milled, acid-neutral paper. Clean As New. 1st Edition. Leather. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, 1992. 665pp/illus. Upton Sinclair, muckraking author of The Jungle, ran for Governor of California in 1934. His opposition, terrified at his Socialist beliefs, initiated the first media campaign to discredit him. This was the beginning of attack ads in newspapers, radio and even in movie shorts. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: MacMillan, 1984. Signed limited first edition. Number 621 of only 1,000 copies signed by the author.. 367 pp., with signed limitation page and 16 pages black and white photographs. Blue publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with original slipcase. Clean like new. Signed by Author. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Numbered Copy.

London: Cassell, 1989. 378pp. Brief biographies of leaders of the Chartist movement, including Lovett, Oastler, Cooper and Attwood. Red cloth boards, Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1943. First published in 1918 by the University of Manchester, this is "a valuable study covering the whole history of the movement" (Williams). G. H. D. Cole considered it to be "among later general books, the best. His work is scholarly, and was based on wide reading of contemporary documents". Previous owner name on ffep. Clean. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1996. 200pp. Clean excellent condition.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hippocrene Books, 1988. 188pp. Author examines the dangers of abslolute power of the Chariman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff of our military. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Regan Books, 2004. 360pp/illus. Ever since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter Lance has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s -- and continues today. In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell in order to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sketch of a bomb-trigger device -- a document seen here for the first time. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. vols. I: vi, [4], viii-ix, [1], [25]-349, [15 (adv.)] pp. II: 330, [2 (adv.)] pp. First edition: Collected letters, reviews, and essays by Lord Brougham (1778-1868), Scotsman, former Lord Chancellor, and the namesake of the brougham carriage. Publisher's cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; sides worn and scuffed, with spines sunned and cloth lost over spine extremities. Clean and tight.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2004. 298pp. Arguments over what democracy actually meant in practice and how it should be implemented raged throughout the early American republic. As Andrew Shankman shows, nowhere were those ideas more intensely contested or more representative of the national debate than in Pennsylvania, where the state's Jeffersonians dominated the day. Pennsylvania Jeffersonians were the first American citizens to attempt to translate idealized speculations about democracy into a workable system of politics and governance. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House Inc, 2003. 285pp. Frum, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, and Perle, a former chairman of the Defense Policy Board under President George W. Bush, look at America's vulnerabilities to terrorism, arguing that the US risks its security if it submits to the authority of the UN. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House Inc, 2003. 285pp. Frum, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, and Perle, a former chairman of the Defense Policy Board under President George W. Bush, look at America's vulnerabilities to terrorism, arguing that the US risks its security if it submits to the authority of the UN. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House Inc, 2003. 285pp. Frum, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, and Perle, a former chairman of the Defense Policy Board under President George W. Bush, look at America's vulnerabilities to terrorism, arguing that the US risks its security if it submits to the authority of the UN. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1979. 186pp. An interesting study of the President's relations with the press just prior to the dominance of mass media. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.