Search Results: History: U.S from The Owl at the Bridge

Washington, Brookings Institution, 1960. Hard Cover. Reviews the 1956 campaign. Eisenhower had a slight challenge from Harold Stassen; the Democrats had Estes Kefauver and Averell Harriman against Adlai Stevenson. Convention and campaign are carefully studied. This is the sort of thing Theodore White developed in 1960 with more verve, more journalistic ”you are there” feeling, and more currency than this solid, perhaps in the end more reliable scholarly study. 101213. xv, 382 p. Vg/no dj.

Rawding Distributing Co., Winchester, Mass. Copyright 1964. Fifteenth Edition. Soft Cover. 48 pages, illus. incl. photos, maps; stapled in yellow pictorial covers; VG. Stock#101383.

Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1966]. Hard Cover. Extra-oversize folio; l, 288, [1], li-lxx p., indexes, illus, facsimiles. The first decade of the 18th century saw quickened economic activity as well as tighter government regulation. In this volume can be traced the foundations of New York's commercial success. 'With the exception of the governor, probably no single official in the colony of New York received as careful selection, or was given more detailed instruction by the crown, than the customs collector. ...Through Customs House doors passed most, if not all, incoming and outgoing provincial trade from overseas, as well as from the other mainland colonies. ...The collectorship was often in the center of political controversy. ...The history of this office is a good example of the essential weakness of the imperial system and the strength, craftiness, and independence of the colonists' (from the introduction). Contents include a glossary of early 18th-century terms, New York shipping… Read More

N.Y., Dutton, 1989. Hard Cover. xii, 397 p. 24 cm. "Ronald Reagan and the supporting players who helped him create the illusion that held America spellbound." Stock #29,406. Vg/ dj vg.

Pamphlet; "Issued by the courtesy of Henry Dexter Sharpe, esquire, governor of the Society." Cover title: "The Pilgrims and Liberty." Softcover. 14 pages; 23.5 cm. Very Good, sewn in printed red paper covers. Stock#40699/h.

Princeton University Press, 1973. Hard Cover. viii, 433 p.; 25 cm. "This book sustains the case for interpreting 1898 and its aftermath as a deliberate search for an 'informal"'or 'insular' empire." ISBN (10): 0691069166. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU246.

Washington, D. C., National Press Books, 1992. Hard Cover. 328 p.; 24 cm. Foreword by Laurence Tribe. The attempts of Bush I to appoint two Conservative judges to the Supreme Court met with ferocious opposition. Senator Simon, who was on the Senate Judiciary Committee that heard the evidence, relates the essential nature of the deliberations and sets the struggle in the historical context of Presidential appointments to the Court. Fine/ dj fine. 101915.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. [iii], 59 p.; 23 cm. "America will have to come to terms with its waning economic, political, and military power." A British view in the aftermath of Vietnam. ISBN)10): 0300015860. Stock#NEU239. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Hard Cover. xiv, 557 p., 22 cm. The context in which Franklin Roosevelt became president. Book club. AM. Stock# 32,030. Vg/ no dj.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1970]. Soft Cover. ix, 434 p.; 23 cm. Eight essays in 3 sections: Introduction: Reappraisal of American policy by Robert E. Osgood; Pt. 1. The Principals: The American outlook by Robert W. Tucker --The Soviet outlook by Herbert S. Dinerstein --pt. 2. The conditions: The domestic scene by Francis E. Rourke --The military issues by Robert E. Osgood --The economic constraints by Isaiah Frank --pt. 3. The arenas: Europe by Laurence W. Martin --The Third World by George Liska. ISBN(10) 0801811031. Stock#NEU195. Good+, used soft cover.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1967.. Hard Cover. 112 p., illus. incl. color. Contents include Louis W. Koenig, 'Consensus Politics' 1800-1805; Marshall Sprague, Love in the Park; Richard O'Connor, 'Black Jack' of the 10th; Stephen Hess, An American in Paris; Lucius Beebe, Purveyor to the West; James Cameron Phifer, 'Mother, I Do Not Hate To Die'; Lately Thomas, Tammany Picked an Honest Man; W. Storrs Lee, Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make; George M. Heinzman, 'Don't Let Them Ride Over Us'; William G. McLoughlin, Trade Cards; Robert E. Pike, Hell and High Water. Color pictorial front cover; white covers a bit soiled, else VG. 28413

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971.. Hard Cover. 112 p., illus. incl. color. 29 cm. Contents include articles on:Lexington and Concord; Lake Eire; Man O'War; Hawaii in 1826; Stock# 40,163. Vg

NY, American Brands, 1975. Soft Cover. I, The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution by Irving Kristol; II, The Revolution of Sober Expectations by Martin Diamond; III, Freedom in a Revolutionary Economy by G. Warren Nutter. 120, [6] p., illus.; 25 cm. Stock#20388x. Vg/ paper. Anothr copy. NS. Vg.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971. Contents include: Disarmament Conference; Literary Boston; Elbert Hubbard; Stillwell in China; DDT; passing the Constitution. Hard Cover. 112 pages, illus. incl. color; 29 cm. Stock#40162. Vg.

New York, Simon and Schuster [1947]. Hard Cover. xii, 476 p. illus. (part col.) ports., facsims. 32 cm. Title continues: Told with the aid of a thousand pictures, reproduced from original photographs, paintings, cartoons, lithographs, engravings, and drawings, especially selected and arranged to illuminate and illustrate the politics, personalities, wars, and peaceful progress of America and its people. Bibliography: p. 465-469. Stock# 35,526. Good+/ no dj.

Two catalogues from bookseller Michael Heaston. VI, 244 items; VIII, 300 items, a few illus. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0304.

Bloominton, Indiana UP, 1985. Hard Cover. x, 304 p. 24 cm. The war "transformed a colonial economy based on the exploitation of raw materials into a diversified economy that included industrial and technological components." Stock# 30.038. Vg/ dj vg.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971. Includes articles on the 19th Century Dinosaur Wars; Thomas Jefferson; James Garfield; a black cadet at West Point; James Farley; Beach wear. Hard Cover. 112 pages, illus. incl. color. 29 cm. Stock#40165. Vg.

Austin, TX. & New Haven, CT, Jenkins and Reese, 1980. Hard Cover. xxi, [iii], 264 p. : facsim. ; 24 cm. Title continues: "printed between 1764 and 1776 dealing with the dispute between Great Britain and her colonies / by Thomas R. Adams." "This book first appeared in the publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Transactions, vol. 43"-- t.p. verso. Stock# 42,942. Fine, new from publisher / no dj.

London, British Library/ Lexington, MA, Museum of Our National Heritage, 1975. Soft Cover. 166 p., illus.; 24.5 cm. "A Commemorative Exhibition Organized by the Map Library and The Department of Manuscripts." 201 entries of choice items from the Library. Stock#32495.Vg/ paper.